Mr. Green once works in a big company. He is quite busy so that he can't do any reading. So he gives up his job and opens a bookshop in the center of the town. It isn't big but all the books are nice and most people like to buy some there. When the shop is closed, he can read at home. He knows a lot and many learned people are glad to make friends with him.

It is Sunday and it is cold outside. Mr. Green is very busy. At nine in the evening all the buyers leave but a woman is still there. She is dressed up and seems to be waiting for somebody there. Standing by the shelves(架子),she looks over the books one after another,and makes them in a terrible mess. Mr. Green comes up to her and asks,"Excuse me,madam. What can I do for you?”

“Your books are not interesting at all,” says the woman,“I want a delicious one."

"That's easy,"Mr. Green smiles. He brings out a cookbook and says,“Here you are, madam."

1.Why does Mr. Green change his job? ..

A. He doesn't like reading . B. He is so busy that he doesn’t have time to read books.

C. He likes the life in the center of the town D. He wanted to write a cookbook himself

2.Most people like to buy books in the shop because .

A. the bookshop is in the center of the town. B. all the books are nice cookbooks.

C. it is very large . D. the books there are all good for people.

3.From the story we know that "learned people"means .

A. people who are free. B. people who are studying hard.

C. people who have much knowledge(知识) . D. people who have much money.

4.What's the most suitable(合适的) ending of the story? .

A. Mr. Green w will make friends with the woman.

B. Mr. Green will teach the woman how to cook delicious food.

C. The woman leaves the bookshop without buying any books.

D. The woman buys many books to be a learned person.

Calvin needs to go to New York for a meeting this Saturday. It’s sunny. It’s his first time to go to New York, so he doesn’t know his way(路) around New York. The meeting is in Peterson Building on 34th Steet and it starts at ten o’clock. He wants to get there on time, so he asks two American boys for help.

“Excuse me, could you tell me where 34th Street is?” asks Calvin.

“Sure,” answers one of the boys. “It’s not far from here. And you can just walk along this street and turn left at the first crossing. Then you can see it on your right.”

“No. Don’t listen to him. He is not telling you the right place. You can just take the No.7 bus and get off at the third stop,” says the other boy.

Then the first boy says, “OK. But the third stop is not 34th Street. It’s 35th Street.”

At this time, Calvin finds that there’s only five minutes left(剩下). Then he gets into a taxi and leaves. After that, Calvin thinks he should ask a policeman for help next time.

1.Why does Calvin go to New York?

A. Because his home is in New York.

B. Because he needs to go to have a meeting.

C. Because he goes there for a holiday.

D. Because he needs to see his mother at hospital.

2.According to the second boy, how can Calvin get to 34th Street?

A. By car. B. By bus. C. By taxi. D. By subway.

3.When does Calvin leave the two boys?

A. At 10:00 B. At 10:05 C. At 9:55 D. At 10:10

4.What can we know from the passage?

A. It’s a windy Saturday. B. The two boys help Calvin a lot.

C. Calvin arrives in New York in the afternoon. D. It’s the first time for Calvin to get to New York.

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is a lovely song for children, but it has two misunderstandings (误解). First, stars aren’t little. Some may be Earth-sized, but most are bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system (太阳系). Second, they don’t twinkle; they shine. And the brightness and color of the light from each star provide information about its temperature, size and even its age. viewing the stars from Earth is a bit like looking at them through a water filter (过滤器) because the air is thick compared to the emptiness of space. What is more, air is always moving, so starlight appears to be moving, too. The air also makes stars appear dimmer (暗淡的) than they would be if we could see them from space.

If you stop and look at the sky carefully on a dark and moonless night, it’s easy to find color differences among stars. The color of a star is a signal of its surface temperature. The hottest stars are blue, and the next hottest are white. Yellow stars like the sun are next, while red stars are the coolest of the visible (可见的) stars. Many red stars are so dim that people can’t see them at all, and some stars hardly send out any light at all. One reason that stars different in brightness is that hotter stars produce more energy than cooler ones, but another important reason is that some are much bigger than others.

Some stars appear brighter to humans simply because they’re closer. Astronomers rank (排列) the brightness of stars which are seen from Earth by giving them a name known as magnitude (光度) ---the smaller the magnitude, the brighter the object. They have also designed a number that ranks stars according to how bright they are when compared to each other. With a magnitude of minus 26.7, the sun is the brightest object in the sky.

1.From the song quite familiar to children, the writer wants to prove that .

A. most stars are smaller than Jupiter

B. Jupiter is bigger and brighter than Earth

C. stars are very large and always shine brightly

D. starlight’s brightness and color are the signs of its temperature

2.Magnitude is designed to see .

A. how far a star is from Earth

B. how bright a star is compared to other stars

C. how far a star is from other stars

D. how bright a star is seen from Earth

3.Which is the best title of this passage?

A. What do stars look like?

B. Which song do children like best?

C. How to view the stars from Earth?

D. Why are many stars so dim at night?

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