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阅读理解。

     Like most teenagers in the world, Joso Montanaro a teen artist in Brazil, likes reading and drawing
cartoons. But he is special-his drawings get published (出版).
     Montanaro is now drawing cartoons for Folha. Folha is Brazil's largest newspaper and is known for its
cartoons.
     Montanaro has already been working at Folha for two years. Each week he draws two, there or four
cartoons and sends them to the paper. From those editors choose one for the next day's page. Montanaro
draws about the news of the day. Recently he worked on The Wave-a drawing of the tsunami (海啸) that hit
Japan. Montanaro also likes to draw cartoons about the funny things that happen in Brazilian politics (政治).
     "I like doing political drawings because you can joke about somebody bigger than you." Montanaro says.
     Folha's art director, Mario Kanno, says editors saw something new and different in Montanaro's work."We
brought him in with this idea to show that, yes, young people also read newspapers and can show their ideas
on politics,"Kanno says.
     Montanaro's love for cartoons began when be was only 7 or 8 year old. His dad bought him comics.
Montanaro says these books gave him the ideas that got him drawing. "I think those great works have really
helped me," he says."They remind me that I should draw something in my book every day."

1. What is Montanaro doing for Folha now?

A. He is publishing story books.
B. He is drawing cartoons.
C. He is sending newspapers.
D. He is writing articles.

2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Folha is famous for its cartoons.
B. Folha is the largest newspaper in Brazil.
C. Montanaro draws one cartoon for Folha every week.
D. Montanaro began to work for Folha two years ago.

3. Why does Montanaro like drawing political cartoons?

A. Because he can show his ideas on politics.
B. Because he is very interested in political jobs.
C. Because he thinks it's easier to draw political cartoons.
D. Because he can make fun of some important people.

4. What made Montanaro draw and helped him a lot in his drawings?

A. The comics his dad bought him.
B. His interest in cartoon films.
C. The fun of drawing cartoons.
D. His dad's ideas about cartoons.

5. What's the best title for this passage?

A. Folha's art director.
B. Brazil's largest newspaper.
C. Teen artist in Brazil.
D. Montanaro's great father.

阅读理解。

Edison often said, "I will discover what the world needs, then I will try to invent it." It is true that he did
more than any other man of his time in inventing things. He made more than one thousand inventions in his life
and all these have changed our way of living. Edison was one of the greatest inventors in the world. When
Edison died in 1931, someone said people should turn off all the lights in their homes, streets and factories for
several minutes in honour of this great man. Of course it was impossible to do so. And this shows what
Edison's inventions mean to people's life.

1. All the things Edision invented were _________ people needed at that time.

A. what
B. that
C. then
D. which

2. Edison _________ in inventing new things.

A. took all his time
B. paid all his money
C. spent his most time
D. spent his most money

3. Edison had _________ inventions in all his life.

A. thousands of
B. over one thousand
C. only one thousand
D. less than a thousand

4. Edison was dead for nearly _________ years.

A. fifty
B. severity-six
C. sixty
D. eighty

5. It was _________ to turn off all the lights in honour of the greatest inventor.

A. possible
B. not true
C. nice
D. important

    Look carefully at the back of a California state quarter. A man with a walking stick is pictured there.A bird
called a California condor (大秃鹫) is flying overhead. Who is this man, and why is he so important that he is
featured (处于显著地位) on the back of a coin?
    The man on this quarter is John Muir. Even as a child, Muir loved watching nature. As a young man, he
spent much of his life exploring the beauty of the wilderness. He walked more than a thousand miles across
the country, through fields and woods. John Muir liked writing about the places he visited, describing their
beauty.
    Muir also wrote about problems.In order to create more farmland for sheep and cattle, rnany trees were
being cut down.This made Muir unhappy and worried, because he knew that trees were important to forests
and to the animals that lived in them.
    Muir believed that nature should be conserved (保护) instead of being changed by human beings.He wrote
articles in magazines and newspapers to spread the word about conserving forests.Soon, others began to
listen. Muir wrote letters to important people,such as President Theodore Roosevelt. The president admired
Muir's love for nature.When Roosevelt came to visit Muir in California. Muir convinced (说服) the president to
go camping with him for three nights under the trees so they could talk about conservation. Later,President
Roosevelt set aside 148 million acres of land for national forests and established (建立) five national parks.
National parks are large areas of land that are protected from development. This means that people cannot build
homes or businesses there. One of these parks is Yosemite National Park,the area that is featured on the back
of the California quarter.
    Though it has been almost one hundred years since John Muir died,people continue his work today. His
work as a conservationist helped us to see the beauty of our natural world.John Muir made us understand the
importance of protecting our earth and our resources—then,now,and for the future.

1. What did John Muir spend much of his life doing when he was a young man?
A. Watching natural views.
B. Writing about the places he visited.
C. Exploring the beauty of the wilderness.
D. Creating farmland for sheep and cattle.

2. Why did President Theodore Roosevelt visit John Muir?
A. Because Roosevelt loved watching nature.
B. Because Roosevelt received letters from John Muir.
C. Because Roosevelt admired John Muir's love for nature.
D. Because Roosevelt was sad about the problems with farmland.

3. What happened after President Roosevelt went camping with John Muir?
A. Many trees were cut down.
B. Five national parks were established.
C. More homes and businesses were built.
D. More farmland was used for sheep and cattle.

4. Why is John Muir featured on the back of a California state quarter?
A. Because he walked over a thousand miles across the country.
B. Because he helped people understand the importance of protecting the natural world.
C. Because he wrote articles to spread the word about conserving forests.
D. Because he once wrote several letters to President Theodore Roosevelt.

5. What is the writer's purpose of writing this article?
A. To advise readers to become active conservationists.
B. To make us interested in the story about a great man.
C. To tell us something about an important person in history.
D. To give information about how to conserve the environment.

完形填空。

     As we all know, Charles Dickens is considered to be a great English writer. He's very famous not only in
Britain, but also in many other  1 in the world. He was born in 1812 and he lived in London. He wrote lots of
books, and he also liked 2 . He was an actor.
     Maybe it's interesting to hear that and that's  3 his books were so good. He gave public readings of his
stories that were very popular. His stories first appeared in a magazine, in parts. People always wanted  4 part.
He wrote a lot, and most of them are popular. There are films and plays of them  5 : Oliver Twist became a
famous musical play, and Great Expectations was a wonderful  6 . Dickens' early life was very hard. His family
was poor, and his mother sent him out to work in a factory when he was 12. He  7 it, but he used his
experiences in his writing. He married Catherine Hogarth and they had a big family. He continued to write  8 he
died. When he died in 1870, he was  9 a story. But what a pity! We'll never know  10 it ended.

(     )1. A. cities
(     )2. A. reading
(     )3. A. what
(     )4. A. the next
(     )5. A. too
(     )6. A. book
(     )7. A. hated
(     )8. A. as
(     )9. A. drawing
(     )10. A. what

B. countries
B. writing
B. how
B. next
B. as well
B. story
B. enjoyed
B. while
B. singing
B. how

C. towns
C. acting
C. when
C. next to
C. as well as
C. play
C. wanted
C. until
C. writing
C. who

D. villages
D. playing
D. why
D. next time
D. also
D. film
D. shamed
D. since
D. making
D. which

阅读短文，还原句子。

     Elena Desserich was a beautiful girl. 1_____She had dreamed of becoming an artist when she grew up-but
sadly, she never had the chance to be an adult. When Elena was only five years old, the doctor said that she
had brain cancer and only had135 days to live.
    Elena spent the long days in the hospital working on her paintings, which were full of hearts and smiling
families.  One of her paintings was shown in a gallery, right next to a Picasso's painting. 2_____And then she
began to "talk" with her family bywriting notes.
  3_____Her parents were very sad, even though they knew the day would come. When they were tidying up
her things, they began to find notes. All through her final days, Elena had been writing love notes to her family
and hiding them in secret places throughout the house.
Her parents started to collect them and all the notes would say, "I love you, Mum, Dad and Crace. "  4_____

A. She loved painting and writing.
B. Elena died in 2007.
C. A month later, she lost the use of her voice.
D. Her parents loved her so much.
E. They kept finding them - the amazing gifts from Elena.

阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多
余选项。

     Lang Lang is only 27 years old, but has already been called "the most popular pianist on the planet" by
American television network CNN.
     Like every successful person, Lang went through years of hard and lonely practice before making his
name. 1_____ With great talent (天赋), he won his first competition at the age of 5. Lang's father pushed
little Lang very hard to succeed. When he was nine, Lang went to leam music in Beijing. 2_____ But Lang
got fired (开除) by the piano teacher six months later. 3_____ Hearing about his son's failure, Lang's father
was so angry that he told Lang to jump off a building!
     4_____ His big break came at age 17, when he gained worldwide fame at "Gala of the Century", a well-
known concert in Chicago, the US. Lang said it was his true love of music and piano that made him keep
working.

A. However, Lang didn't jump, and pressure (压力) soon changed to power.
B. He has performed in almost every big city around the world.
C. It totally destroyed (毁灭) his piano dream.
D. He began to take piano lessons at the age of 3.
E. His father even gave up his job and moved to Beijing with his son.

阅读理解。

     Who was Leonardo da Vinci? You may answer without thinking: "He is the painter of Mona Lisa."
What else do you know about him? Da Vinci was more than just a great artist in history. He's also famous
as a scientist and an inventor.
     Recently, the Grand Rapids Public Museum in the US had an exhibition to introduce this great talent.
In one of the shows, named "Leonardo da Vinci's Machines in Motion", visitors could see and touch 30
full-size machines built according to his sketches-including a crane (起重机) and a robot!
     Leonardo da Vinci was born to a rich family in Florence, Italy, in 1452. From childhood, Leonardo was
given a good education and he showed talent at painting. By the age of 26, Da Vinci had already become a
famous painter.
     However, he showed that he had multiple talents in 1482 when he began to work for the Duke of Milan
as a chief engineer. In the duke's military factories, Da Vinci developed an interest in war weapons.
     He designed many important machines, including helicopters and parachutes. He also drew and wrote
about an armored car, which could carry eight men inside and allow them to fire weapons through holes
in its walls. Da Vinci's idea led to the mod- ern tank. Though Da Vinci never built many of the inventions
he designed, some of the things he imagined in the late 1400s are in use today.
     As a scientist, Da Vinci was fascinated with the human body. He spent a whole year cutting up dead
bodies in hospitals to learn about human anatomy (解剖). He made more than 200 drawings of bodies.
     Amazingly, Da Vinci wrote backward, so the easiest way to read his notes was to hold them up to a
mirror!

完形填空。

     World No.2 tennis  1 Elena Anodic from Serbia (塞尔维亚) has won her second title of the year. She
became champion of the China Open  2 September 28.
     Jankovic first practiced tennis when she was nine years old. After six months Jankovic played her first
match. It was the  3 championship for kids up to 10 years old. She came to the semi-finals (半决赛). When
she was 11, she won a national championship for girls up to 12 years old.  4 continue her career, Jelena 5
Serbia and went to the United States. At that time, she  6 speak any English. And her family did not come
with her. It was a hard time."I did not know what I needed  7 when I was going to school. I could not do
my homework. When you have a  8 , there is nobody to help you. So, you learn it the hard way," Jelena said.
     However, it was a good  9 experience for Jelena. "It makes me  10 independent (独立的) and stronger
as a person. I know  11 everything by myself, so I don't have to  12  my parents  13  somebody else to do
it for me," she said.
     In the US, Jelena received better conditions for practice and  14 of her game. In 2000, she became a
professional (职业选手) and has been shining on the tennis court  15 .

(     )1. A. play
(     )2. A. in
(     )3. A. nation
(     )4. A. In order to
(     )5. A. left for
(     )6. A. didn't
(     )7. A. do
(     )8. A. difficult
(     )9. A. learning
(     )10. A. many
(     )11. A. how to do
(     )12. A. depend
(     )13. A. and
(     )14. A. develop
(     )15. A. ever since

B. plays
B. of
B. national
B. So that
B. left
B. wasn't
B. to do
B. difficulty
B. learn
B. much
B. how to do it
B. depend on
B. or
B. developed
B. years ago

C. playing
C. on
C. national's
C. Because
C. left to
C. isn't
C. doing
C. difficulties
C. learns
C. more
C. what to do
C. depending
C. but
C. developing
C. by the year 2000

D. player
D. at
D. nation's
D. Because of
D. was away
D. doesn't
D. done
D. difficultly
D. to learn
D. less
D. what to do it
D. depending on
D. too
D. development
D. for 20 years

在短文的空白处选择方框中词的适当形式填空，补全短文。

success, able, work, show, magician, surprised, practice, improve, he, decide

     Liu Qian is a magician from Taiwan. For the CCTV Spring Festival Gala (春晚) he put on two magic
1_____. They were very 2_____. Now everyone is mad about magic. We all want to know how to do a trick!
     Liu didn't go to any 3_____ school. He learned by 4_____. He worked hard at it. Now he is a great
magician.
     When Liu was seven, he saw a coin trick in a big store. At that moment Liu 5_____ to learn magic.
     Liu practiced hard to 6_____ his skills. Then one day he was 7_____ to put on a show for his class.
     "I saw the 8_____ on everyone's face. It was cool. "
     Liu still 9_____ hard today. He may spend three years 10_____ on a new show.

阅读理解。

The Nobel (诺贝尔) Peace Prize for 2008 was
given to Martti Ahtisaari. He was the president of
Finland from 1994 t0 2000. He won the prize for
his work in solving (解决) international conflicts
(冲突) for more than 30 years.

During all his life, both as president and as an international officer, he has worked for peace. For the past
20 years, he has done a lot to resolve several serious international conflicts. Some of these conflicts had lasted
for years. In 1989-90, he played an important role in helping Namibia's independence (独立); in 2005 he did
his best to help solve the Aceh question in Indonesia. In 1999 and again in 2005-2007,under very difficult
situation he found ways to help solve the conflict in Kosovo. In 2008, together with other organizations, he
has tried to help solve many of the problems in Iraq. He has also made great contributions (贡献) to solving
the conflict in Northern Ireland, Central Asia, and on the Horn of Africa.
"This work has made a more peaceful world in Nobel's spirit," the officer said, "so he has won the prize."

1. Martti Ahtisaari is _____.

A. a Nobel Peace Prize winner
B. president of Finland
C. both A and B
D. none of the above

2. He spent _____ years helping Namibia with its independence.

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

3. The passage tells us Martti Ahtisaari has helped _____ countries solving the conflicts.

A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8

4. What does the word "he" refer to in the last paragraph?

A. Martti Ahtisaari.
B. Nobel.
C. The work.
D. The officer.

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