Kate is against 1 a new zoo in their town．Zoos are terrible 2 for animals to live．She has visited a lot of zoos 3 her life, and she has never seen one she liked or one that was suitable 4 animals to live in．Just last week, she visited a zoo and couldn’t believe what she 5 ．The animals are kept in tiny 6 and can 7 move at all．However, Alice thinks zoos are very important places．They are like living 8 for young people．They provide homes 9 many endangered animals, and help to educate 10 about caring for them．
The Friendship Hotel is ________ than the Hilton Hotel．
[ ]
A．
cheaper
B．
dearer
C．
bigger
(2)
I want to stay in the Hilton for twenty days in May．I need about ________．
[ ]
A．
￡ 605
B．
￡ 684
C．
￡ 1368
(3)
Each hotel is closed for ________ months a year．
[ ]
A．
three
B．
four
C．
five
(4)
Which month is the dearest for the Hilton?
[ ]
A．
October．
B．
May．
C．
September．
(5)
If you want to save money, you had better stay in the Hilton Hotel in ________．
[ ]
A．
November
B．
January
C．
July
阅读理解：
Many places in the world need more fresh(淡的)water．Every country is trying to find ways to turn salt water into fresh．
Why aren't there many factories like the Symi factory?
In some places, the sun is not hot enough．Or it does not shine every day．
In such places, other ways of heating(加热)sea water can be used．These ways cost more money, but they work faster than the sun．By boiling(煮沸)sea water with high heat, a lot of fresh water can be made quickly．
But heating is not the only way to get fresh water from salt water．Other ways are tried．
One way is freezing(冷冻)．The fresh part of salt water freezes first．To get fresh water, the bits of ice are taken out．
Which way is the best?The one that gives the most water for the least money．It may be a different way for each place．
Symi’s way seems very good for small, hot places．It does not make very much water at a time．But the factory is easy to build and costs little．
That is why people in many dry places talk about Symi!
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
(1)
From the passage we know that fresh water ________．
[ ]
A．
is needed in every country
B．
can be found in many factories
C．
can be used in many ways
D．
is very important for factories
(2)
What is the writer mainly talking about in the passage?________
[ ]
A．
Hot places and dry places．
B．
The ways of making fresh water from sea water．
C．
How to make good use of the sun．
D．
Water-making factories in different countries．
(3)
The Symi factory ________．
[ ]
A．
is a fresh water-making factory
B．
can be built everywhere
C．
can make much fresh water at a time
D．
does not need sunshine every day
(4)
Which is the best way for small and hot places to get fresh water?________
[ ]
A．
Boiling or heating the sea water．
B．
The way in hotter and drier places．
C．
The Symi’s way．
D．
Freezing the sea water in cold places．
(5)
Which of the following is wrong?________
[ ]
A．
New ways are tried to get fresh water．
B．
A lot of water can be made quickly by heating．
C．
The best way is to get more fresh water with the least money．
D．
The Symi’s way does not work in dry places．
Hi!My name is Wang Ming．I’m fifteen years old, and I’m a Grade 3 student in Shanghai in the year 2053!
I expect you find that pretty hard to believe．Let me explain．This book is a journal I wrote last month for a very special competition．I won the first prize, which was that my book would become part of the first ever experiment in time travel．It would be put in a time capsule to be sent back almost fifty years into the past．So, if everything went according to the plan, you should be reading this in about the year 2005．
Do you know what time capsules are?They are usually containers made of some very strong material－so strong that it should last for hundreds or thousands of years without being destroyed．Inside these containers, you put things that are typical of the place in which you live．For example, in 2005 you might put a copy of a popular comic, a CD by a famous musician, videos of television programs－all sorts of things．The idea is that when people in another century open up the time capsule．They’ll be able to see what life was like in the past．
Until now, all time capsules have been left for people in the future to find．This one is the first that has been sent from the future to the past．I don’t understand how it’s going to be done, but I think it’s a really cool idea．If it works, my own grandparents will be able to read this when they were secondary school students!But if my grandparents did read this, why haven’t they ever mentioned it to me?
(1)
If we believe what the passage says, this book was written ________．
[ ]
A．
last month
B．
about fifty years ago
C．
in the future
D．
by a time traveler．
(2)
Time capsules are usually ________．
[ ]
A．
hundreds or thousands of years old．
B．
made by people in another century
C．
sent back in time to people in the past
D．
containers holding objects typical of a certain time and place．
(3)
The main purpose of most time capsules is to ________
[ ]
A．
show people in the past what life will be like in the future
B．
show people in the future what life was like in the past
C．
keep copies of old comics of CDs
D．
store recording of old television programs
(4)
The last sentence shows that Wang Ming finds the ideas of time travel ________．
[ ]
A．
confusing
B．
exciting
C．
uninteresting
D．
cool
阅读理解：
Can You Make Short Phone Calls?
Phones are very useful to us, and we can’t work without them．But phones also bring troubles．For example, a friend wants to tell you his or her latest health problem on the phone．You are very busy, so you have to cut your friend off．What will you say?
When you answer a call, don’t ask questions like “How are things?” because these questions will make them think that you have time to talk longer．After “hello,” get right to the heart of the matter you want to say．
When you make a call, you should call at the right time．If you call right before lunch or dinner, or at the end of the work day, people will not talk too much．
When you call someone and do not want to talk longer, you may start with, “Hi, I’ve only got a few minutes, but I want to talk to you about…” or, “I’d like to talk more, but I only have a few minutes before I have to go．”
If you don’t want to spend time talking to someone, you must say, “I’d like to talk to you longer, but I must say Goodbye．” Don’t wait for the answer．
If someone does not stop talking and you have to leave, you can ask someone in your home to help you．For example, you signal to your father, and your father says loudly, “Mary, I think the bread is burning!”
(1)
When you want to make a short phone call, you should say：________ and then go right to the matter．
[ ]
A．
How are things?
B．
What’s new?
C．
How are you doing?
D．
I only have three minutes before I have to leave．
(2)
When you want to stop talking, you can say：________
[ ]
A．
I have to go now．Goodbye．
B．
I’m glad to talk to you．What can I do for you?
C．
So, what else is new?
D．
Hi．How are things?
(3)
If someone does not stop talking and you have to leave, you can ________
[ ]
A．
ask someone in your home to help you．
B．
shout to him loudly．
C．
cry loudly．
D．
Throw the phone to the floor．
We drink tea every day．But more than 400 years ago, most people in Europe(欧洲)did not know anything about tea．Some had heard about it, but very few knew what to do with it．
Here is a story about an English sailor(水手)who went to countries all over the world．He had been to China and India．One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother．She told her friends about the present and invited them to a “ tea party”．When her friends came to the “tea party”,the old woman gave them brown tea leaves．Her friends began to eat them of course; nobody liked the tealeaves．At that moment the sailor came in, he looked at the table and said, “Mother, what have you done with the tea?”
“I boiled it, as you said．”
“And what have you done with the water?”
“I poured it out, of course．”answered the mother．
“Now you may throw away the leaves．” said the sailor．
(1)
The mother ________．
[ ]
A．
boiled the tea and threw the leaves away
B．
boiled the tea and poured the water out
C．
knew more about tea than others
D．
enjoyed herself very much
(2)
At the “tea party”________．
[ ]
A．
everybody enjoyed the brown tea leaves
B．
some of her friends enjoyed the brown tea leaves
C．
nobody enjoyed the brown tea leaves
D．
the old woman enjoyed the brown tea leaves
(3)
The son asked his mother to throw away the leaves, because ________．
[ ]
A．
his mother had treated(招待)her friends with the wrong thing
B．
the tea his mother has made was too strong
C．
he didn’t like his mother’s friends
D．
he himself didn’t like the tea leaves
(4)
Where does the sailor come from?
[ ]
A．
America
B．
Canada
C．
Thailand
D．
England
(5)
He had been to ________．
[ ]
A．
China and Australia
B．
Brazil and Chile
C．
China and Brazil
D．
India and China
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
阅读理解
Joe Brown had a shop．He sold(卖)meat in his shop．One Thursday a woman came into his shop at five to one．“I’m sorry I’m late,”she said．“I need some more meat for my dinner tonight．”Joe had only one piece of meat in his shop．He took it out of the fridge and said,“This is＄6.50．”“That piece is too small．,”the woman said,“haven’t you for anything bigger?”Joe went into the room behind his shop, put the piece of meat into the fridge, took it out of again and closed the door with lots of noise．Then he brought the piece of meat to the woman and said,“This piece of meat is bigger and more expensive．It’s ＄8.75．”“Good,”the woman said with a smile,“give me both of them．”
(1)
Joe Brown was ________．
[ ]
A．
a waiter
B．
a runner
C．
an actor
D．
a shopkeeper
(2)
When did the woman come to Joe’s shop?
[ ]
A．
Early in the morning．
B．
Early in the afternoon．
C．
Late in the morning．
D．
At about one o’clock at night．
(3)
Why didn’t the woman want that piece of meat?
[ ]
A．
Because she had no money．
B．
Because it was bad．
C．
Because it wasn’t big enough．
D．
Because it was too big
(4)
How many pieces of meat were kept in the fridge?
[ ]
A．
Only one piece of meat．
B．
Two pieces of meat．
C．
Several pieces of meat．
D．
Many pieces of meat．
(5)
Could Joe give the woman both pieces of meat?
[ ]
A．
Of course not．
B．
Certainly．
C．
He would try his best．
D．
Yes, he could．
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．
