Two months ago, my family moved to Planet Zox. There are species (物种) from many different planets on Planet Zox. In fact, I liked my new planet till it was time to start school.

“I’m worried,” I told my parents that first morning. “Nobody there will be like me.”

“They don’t have to be like you to be friends with you,” Mum said.

When I got to school, I kept an eye out for other humans (人). I found a few in the halls, but I was the only one in my class. Nobody talked to me all morning. At lunch, I found that all the other humans were eating with other species. I found only one table with empty (空的) chairs. There, alone, sat one of my classmates, Hululialana. She had many tentacles (触手). I spoke to her with great care (关心), “Hello, Hululialana.”

Slowly, one of her tentacles pulled (拉) a chair closer to me.

I sat down. “Thank you,” I said. We looked at each other, then away.

“How’s your first day going?” I quickly asked.

“I wish I were still at my old school,” she said.

“I miss my old school too,” I said.

But you’re not the only human__I’m the only Hulu.

I thought for a minute and said, “That makes you special.”

“That makes me a freak (怪人),” she said.

“Well, let’s be freaks together.”

Then, for the first time, Hululialana smiled.

After that day, school on Planet Zox began to be pretty fun.

1.Before the writer went to his new school, he worried that _______.

A. the subjects would be difficult

B. the school would be dangerous

C. he couldn’t understand the teachers

D. he would look different from others

2.The underlined part “kept an eye out for” in Paragraph 4 means “_______”.

A. 调查 B. 负责

C. 信赖 D. 留心

3.What can we know about Hululialana?

A. She lived close to the writer.

B. She thought she was a freak.

C. She was bored with her old school.

D. She had fewer tentacles than the writer.

4.The underlined sentences show that Hululialana probably felt _______.

A. lucky B. proud

C. sad D. angry

5.After the lunch, the writer and Hululialana might _______.

A. become close

B. leave Planet Zox

C. get popular at school

D. go to a different table

(2018·山东临沂)What was discovered by accident? The answer is penicillin (青霉素). It kills germs. By killing germs, it saves lives. Suppose you are sick. You go to a doctor. She examines you. She says you have a “staph” infection (葡萄球菌感染). She gives you some medicine. You take it. The medicine knocks out the staph. Soon you are well. Before penicillin, this would not happen. Staph was almost sure death.

Everyone wanted a medicine. Laboratories worked day and night. They grew the staph in small dishes. Then they tried to kill it. Nothing worked.

The laboratory dishes had covers on them. They kept things from falling into dishes. Molds (霉菌) were a big worry. They are always in the air. You can’t see them. They’re too small. There are thousands of different molds. Molds can make an experiment (实验) fail. That’s why dishes are covered.

Dr. Alexander Fleming was working to kill the staph germ. He worked for years. One day he took a cover off a dish. He looked inside. There was a thick growth of staph germ. There was also some mold. Then he saw something strange. Where the mold was, there was no growth of staph. This is what Fleming probably thought. “By accident, I found a mold to kill the dreaded staph.”

This is how penicillin was found. But here’s the real miracle (奇迹). There are thousands of kinds of molds. But only one kind can kill staph. The mold must have fallen into the dish a few days before. The cover was probably off only a few seconds (秒). In those few seconds the right mold fell into the right dish. Another man might have thrown the dish away. But Fleming was very careful and smart. He understood what the mold did. How lucky the humans were!

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案

1.During the experiments to find a medicine for staph infections, ________.

A. the dishes were not covered

B. staph and mold were put together

C. mold was kept in small dishes

D. staph was grown in small dishes

2.The word “ dreaded” means “_______”.

A. famous B. scary

C. health D. endangered

3.The last paragraph suggests that _______.

A. accidents happen to everyone

B. the careful person does not have accidents

C. the careless person will miss valuable chances

D. luck is enough when doing scientific experiments

4.Most of this passage is written by ______.

A. telling an unusual story B. showing the results of experiments

C. offering some reasons D. giving some advice

5.This passage is mainly about ______.

A. medicine for a staph infection B. useful accidents

C. Dr. Fleming’s research D. discovering penicillin

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