Mr. West was born in a small English town. His father had a shop there. The shopkeeper didn’t think it was ____ for his son to go to school. So he taught him how to get more money. They got much money there and then ____ to the city. Now Old West can’t manage his shop and his son, Mr. West has to do it ____ him. As he has little knowledge, Mr. West is often ____ in public and sometimes he gets into trouble. So he ____ a lot of books and shelves and put them in his sitting room so that the visitors can see them ____ they go in. He often goes to the parties and carefully ____ what the learned(有学问的)men say. He hopes to make friends with them.

Once Mr. West was told that it was a famous writer’s birthday that day. He hurried there with his wife. He gave the writer some ____ presents and the old man thanked him. After dinner they began to talk about the literary works(文学作品).

He could hardly answer any questions. The writer had to ask him ____ one, “What was Shakespeare?”

“It was a kind of drink, ” answered Mr. West. “But people do not like it now. ”

The writer had a smile and soon he stopped ____ . On their way home, his wife said, “You made a mistake just now. Shakespeare is a delicious cake, like the Chinese moon cake!”

1.A.useful B.possible C.easy D.difficult

2.A.went B.got C.ran D.moved

3.A.with B.after C.instead of D.before

4.A.helped B.laughed at C.hurt D.beaten

5.A.borrowed B.made C.bought D.wrote

6.A.because B.if C.that D.as soon as

7.A.listens to B.hears C.looks at D.sees

8.A.cheap B.expensive C.useless D.small

9.A.more difficult B.the most difficult C.easy D.the easiest

10.A.to talk B.to answer C.talking D.answering

Read and write “T”or “F”(阅读下列短文作出判断,与短文内容一致的用“T”表示,不一致的用“F”表示)

Venus

Venus is the nearest planet to Earth, and in some ways the two planets are similar.

They are both made of iron and rock and are about the same size. The pull of gravity is about the same on both planets. So if you were standing on Venus, you would weigh almost the same as on Earth. But you would be very, very hot --- on the surface of Venus, the temperature is about 450℃! Large amounts of carbon dioxide gas(CO2)in the planet’s atmosphere are like a blanket. Heat from the Sun is trapped under a thick layer of clouds. These clouds are not made of water --- they are made of acid. The whole atmosphere is poisonous. Venus is sometimes called Earth’s “evil twin”.

Venus turns much more slowly than Earth does. A day on Venus is about as long as 117 Earth days. It also turns in the opposite direction to earth. So on Venus you would see the Sun rising in the west and setting in the east.

Because the acid clouds are very thick and are moving up to 360 kilometers an hour, it has been hard to get pictures of Venus. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s the former Soviet Union sent a number of probes(空间探测仪)to land there. None of the probes lasted longer than two hours on the hot surface, but they did send back important information and pictures. In the early 1990s, the USA’s Magellan probe, was able to map most of the planet’s surface. The Japanese probe, Akatsuki, reached Venus in 2015, finding out more about our nearest neighbor. It is believed that more probes will be sent there in the future. After all, at its closest, Venus is only 38 kilometers away!

1.You would get the same weight as on Earth if you stood on Venus.

2.The clouds on Venus are made of water not acid.

3.Venus turns so fast that you can see the Sun rising in the west.

4.It has been difficult to get pictures of Venus because of the high temperature.

5.It’s believed that Venus is close enough to Earth that many probes will be sent.

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WHEN was the last time you used an emoji ? For many of you, the answer is “just now”! Indeed, the cute little pictures have become an important part of our digital lives. But think twice the next time you send out an emoji – the wrong one may get you in hot water

A 12-year-old girl from Virginia, US learned this lesson the hard way. She faced charges for using gun, bomb and knife emojis in a post on Instagram, a photo-sharing website, in December. She had to appear in a court for threatening the school and computer harassment (骚扰) last month, reported The Washington Post.

The girl’s mother said her daughter was a good kid and that the post was a response to bullying (欺凌). It’s not clear whether the case has already been solved, since the hearings (听证) were not open to the public.

There will be more and more of these cases as emojis continue to spread around the world. Last year, 6 billion emojis and other similar pictures were sent every day, according to the UK-based mobile technology company SwiftKey.

While the courts get ready to struggle with upcoming cases with emojis, do you agree that we should start using the icons more carefully?

1.What is an emoji?

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2.Why did she have to appear in a court?

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3.What do you think of the girl’s behaviour? Why?

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