The morning was a bit cold, but Li Yanbo quickly got out of his warm bed when it was 7∶30．He picked up two plastic buckets(塑料桶)and rushed to the center of the village, where a fire truck arrives once a day to provide water for them．
Li, a 24-year-old farmer, lives in Liguan village, Songming－about 60km away from Kunming．For the last three months, he has risen early to meet the fire truck because the village's only reservoir(水库)has dried up．Rain hasn't fallen for six months．
The queue is very long by the time Li arrives．About 4,000 thirsty villagers come with their empty buckets and stand behind the truck．
“My family gets two or three buckets of water every day．We use them for drinking, washing and cooking,”said Li．“If we save a little every day, then once a week we can have a short bath．”
Li planted two mu of broad beans(蚕豆)last autumn, but he has earned nothing because of the drought(干旱)．As usual, he would plant rice after getting in the beans．But the field is so dry that he can't even plough(耕田)it．
“The rice is food for my family－my parents and younger brother．We have no more money to buy rice from the market,”said Li．
Like most people in his village, growing tobacco(烟草)provides the family's meal ticket．Usually, Li's three mu of tobacco earns him near 10,000 yuan．But now…Luckily, local governments are trying to help families like Li's by hunting for new water resources(资源)．
How important it is to save water!Li says“It has taught me that, if we use water correctly, two buckets a day should be enough for four family members．We can recycle(循环利用)the water for many different uses,”said Li．“Every drop of water is worth a lot of money．I hope people realize this．”
(1)
What does the underlined word“them”mean?
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A．
Li Yanbo's family members
B．
Plastic buckets
C．
The fire engines
D．
The villagers
(2)
Why has the village's only reservoir dried up?
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A．
Because there has been no rain for half a year．
B．
Because the local people use water in it too much．
C．
Because the local people don't know how to save water．
D．
Because the governments haven't found new water resources．
(3)
Which of the following will most probably happen according to the passage?
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A．
Li Yanbo will have to leave his home for a better life．
B．
Most families like Li's will have to carry water from far away．
C．
Li Yanbo will hardly earn anything from his farm work this summer．
D．
The villagers like Li will live a hard life because they haven't got any help．
(4)
The writer wrote this passage mainly to tell us ________．
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A．
how serious the drought is in this village
B．
it's important to save and use water correctly
C．
what has been done to help the local people by the government
D．
we should try our best to collect money to help the people in the disaster area
(5)
In which column(栏目)of the newspaper can we most probably read this passage?
The dinosaurs once lived happily on the earth．But 65 million years ago，they suddenly died out．What happened to them?
Scientists think that a change in temperature may be to blame．They have come up with lots of ideas to explain the end of the dinosaurs．
The most famous one is the minor planet (小行星) idea．Let's go back to that day 65 million years ago to see what happened．Everything was OK before a large minor planet suddenly hit the earth．What a terrible hit! It caused big fires，storms，acid rain，and even earthquakes and volcano eruptions．The hit produced a lot of dust,which flew up into the air and blocked the sun for months．The earth became very cold without sunlight．The plants died first．Then the grass-eating animals died of hunger．Then the meat-eating animals could not find food，either．They began to eat each other，but after a while they died out，too．The dinosaurs，either plant-eaters or meat-eaters，did not live through the disaster(灾难)．What a sad story!
In April，a British scientist thought of a new idea about the death of the dinosaurs．He thinks that after the minor planet hit the earth，the temperature change left more dinosaur boys than girls! Without enough female dinosaurs to hatch the eggs，the dinosaur population became smaller and smaller．
(1)
______ may be the main reason for the dinosaurs dying out according to scientists．
A．Big fires B．Earthquakes
C．Acid rain D．Temperature change
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(2)
The passage mentioned ______ ideas that the scientists came up with about
the end of the dinosaurs．
A．two B．three C．four D．five
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(3)
The underlined expression “volcano eruptions” probably is ______.
A．the name of a minor planet
B．one kind of dinosaurs
C．one kind of disaster
D．the name of an earthquake
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(4)
The earth became cold because ______.
A．the sun refused to rise
B．the dust kept the sunlight away
C．there was too much rain
D．there were too many dinosaurs
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(5)
This passage may be found in ______.
A．a science fiction B．a story book C．a dictionary D．a science magazine
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阅读理解
You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year．You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly．
Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have．
Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions．
(1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?
(2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?
(3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?
(4)Do you read one word at a time?
If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit．If you move your tips，hold your fingers over them，or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading．Then if your lips move，your will know it and can stop them．
If you point to words，hold the two sides of your book，one side with your left hand，the other side with your right hand．Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading．If you move your head，place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的)．
If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time，you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words．
Even if you do rather fast now，you can learn to read even faster．As you probably have been told，the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance．Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go．Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster．
(1)
You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______．
A．to tell others to be silent
B．to feel whether your lips move or not
C．to hold a piece of paper between them
D．to keep yourself from talking to others
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(2)
When you read，______．
A．don't keep your head still
B．don't hold your books with your hands
C．don't stand up near a desk
D．don't use your finger to point to words
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(3)
If you learn to read fast，______．
A．you can read more in less time
B．you can write faster
C．you can understand better
D．you can read less in more time
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(4)
You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading．
A．remember B．have C．get rid of D．keep
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(5)
This reading is mainly about ______．
A．the way of reading fast
B．the importance of fast reading
C．the bad habits in reading
D．how to speak quickly
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阅读理解
Binhai No．3 Middle School Rules
Yon must
*look clean and tidy
*be quiet in the library
*stay in the playground at break time
*bring a letter from your parents if you’re ill
*stand up when a teacher comes into the classroom
*hand in your homework on time
*arrive at school by half past seven
You mustn’t
*fight
*bring radios or CD players to school
*run or shout in the school buildings
*talk loudly in the hallways
*leave school at break time or at lunch time
*Wear jeans
*cat or drink in the classroom
假如你是滨海三中的学生，请依据校规内容回答下面的问题。
(1)
What are the things you must not do when you’re in the school buildings?
(2)
Can you leave school at lunch-time?
(3)
What must you do when your teacher comes into your classroom?
