John Denver, the writer and composer of Goodbye Again, is one of the best-known American folk
singers and song writers. He is a country boy by birth and still prefers the mountains of Colorado to the
big cities he has visited in his many travels. He was born as Henry John in Roswell, New Mexico on
December 31, 1943. He later changed his name to the simpler John Denver after his favourite big city,
Denver Colorado.
     When he was a student, he knew he wanted to be a folk singer and sang in coffee houses at night.
Later he became famous. His song Goodbye Again expresses his feelings about travelling and being
away from home.

1. John Denver is not just good at singing but good at __________.

A writing stories
B. traveling
C. writing books
D. creating(创作) songs

2. Denver Colorado is the name of __________.

A. a mountain
B. a singer
C. a city
D. a country boy

3. John Denver loved the beauty of his favourite place so much that he __________.

A. traveled there many times
B. changed his name after its name
C. hated city life
D. felt sorry not to live there

4. Which of the following shows the correct relationship between America (A), New Mexico (N) and
Roswell(R)?

A. A>N>R
B. A>R>N
C. N>A>R
D. R>N>A

5. John's song Goodbye Again tells about __________.

A. his love for mountains
B. his opinion about life
C. his love for music
D. his feelings on leaving home

     When I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a smile.
     It was the early autumn of my first year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away. As a
result, no one knew who I was. I was very lonely, and afraid to make friends with anyone.
     Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart break. I couldn't talk to
anyone about my problem, and I didn't want my parents to worry about me.
     Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual.
At that moment, a boy entered the classroom. I didn't know who he was. He passed me and then turned
back. He looked at me and, without a word, smiled.
     Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy, lively and warm.
     That smile changed my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day, I
became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.
     One day, I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn't remember smiling at me!
It doesn't matter because all the dark days have gone. Now I believe that the world is what you think it is.
If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

1. Why was the smile an important gift?

A. The writer's old school was far away.
B. It made the writer feel happy, lively and warm.
C. The writer didn't know who the boy was.
D. The smile didn't mean anything to the writer.

2. Why do you think the boy smiled?

A. He was happy to see his friends.
B. He saw the writer was unhappy.
C. He really liked the writer.
D. He was a very friendly boy and smiled at everyone.

3. How did the smile change her life?

A. She began to make new friends.
B. She became best friends with the boy.
C. Her parents didn't worry about her any more.
D. She realized that it's important to smile at people.

4. Where does she now think her feeling of unhappiness came from?

A. From her old school.
B. From herself.
C. From other people in the world.
D. From the children at the new school.

     Toto was a baby elephant. Her trunk was only one meter long. When she heard her father making a
noise, Toto raised her trunk, too. The only noise that she could make  was very  very   little,  like a  toy
whistle ( 啸叫 ). (2 ) Toto saw her mother pulling leaves from the top of a tree to eat them. She  tried
to reach the lowest ( 3 ) branch, but she couldn't. So her father and mother had to help her to break the
branch and it fell down to the ground. Toto was happy that she could eat the leaves.
     As it was a hot day, flies ( 苍蝇 ) sat in the corners of her eyes. She shook ( 摇 ) her head, but the
flies stayed there. She saw her mother pulling some grass with her trunk to drive off the flies.
     ( 4 ) Toto 发觉这一点都不难.When the elephant walked to a river, her father would help her have
a bath. He put the water in his trunk and poured it onto Toto's back. She was very happy and cool.

1. 回答问题:How long is the baby elephant's trunk? ___________________________________
2. 译成汉语:                                                                  
3. 猜测词义:___________________________________________________________________
4. 译成英语:                                                                  
5．回答问题:How did the father help the baby elephant to have a bath?
   ____________________________________________________________________________

     One morning, Mr. Smith came into the garden at the back of his house. He saw so much snow in the
garden. Mr. Smith wanted to take his car out, so he asked a man to clean the road from his garage (车库) to the gate. He said to the man, “Don't throw any snow on the side. It will damage(破坏) the flowers in my garden, and don't throw any on the other side, because it will damage the wall. And don't throw any into
the street, because the policeman will come.” Then he went out.
     When he came back, the road was clean. There was no snow on the flowers, or the wall or the street. But when he opened the garage to get his car out, he saw: the garage was full of snow, the snow from the
road, and his car was under the snow.

1. In the morning Mr. Smith found ______ was full of snow.

A. his garden
B. his garage
C. his house
D. his car

2. He wanted a man to clean the road because ______.

A. He didn't like the snow.
B. He liked the very much.
C. He wanted to take his car out.
D. He often asks the man to clean the road.

3. Where was Mr. Smith's car?                         

A. Under the snow.
B. In the street.
C. In the garden.
D. In the back of the garage.

    Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America.
One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world, and the third
owned many buildings in the center of New York.
    The reporter was talking to them about being important.
    "How do we know if someone is really important?" the reporter asked the banker.
    The banker thought for a few moments and then said, "I think anybody who is invited to the White
House to meet the President of the United States is really important."
    The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. "Do you agree with that?" she
asked.
    The man shook his head, "No, I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You'd
only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president
of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it."
    The reporter turned to the third man. "Do you think so?"
    "No, I don't," he said. "I don't think that makes the visitor important. That makes the President
important."
    "Then what would make the visitor important?" the reporter and the other two men asked.
    "Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the
President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, 'It's for you.' "

1. This story happened in______.

A. England        
B. America        
C. Japan        
D. Australia

2. There are______ in this passage.

A. two men and two women              
B. three men and one woman
C. three women and one man              
D. four women

3. The banker thought______.

A. he was really important because he was a rich banker
B. the visitor to the White House to meet the President of the U.S was really important
C. the visitor who met the President of the US
D. the reporter was really important

4. The owner of the very large company thought______.

A. she was really important because she owned one of the largest companies
B. the banker was really important
C. the owner of many buildings in the center of New York was really important
D. the visitor would be really important if while he was visiting the President．the President would not
answer any telephone call

5. The owner of many buildings thought______.

A. he was really important because he owned many buildings in the center of New York
B. the owner of the very large company was really important
C. the visitor was really important if he was talking to the President and the President received a
telephone call for the visitor
D. the person who worked in the White House was really important

     Mr. and Mrs. Turner live outside a small town. They have a big farm and they are always busy working
  on it. Their son, Peter, studied at a middle school. The young man studied hard and did well in his
 lessons. It made them happy.
     Last month Peter finished middle school and passed the entrance examination (升学考试）Mrs.
 Turner was very happy and told the farmers about it.
     Yesterday morning the woman went to the town to buy something for her son. On the bus she told one
  of her friends how clever and able her son was. She spoke very loudly. All the people in the bus began to
  listen to her.
?"Which university (大学) will your son study in?" a woman next to her asked.
?"In the most famous university in our country!" Mrs. Turner said happily.
?"The most famous university?""Oxford University (牛津)."
?Most of the passengers (乘客) looked at her carefully. Some of them said to her, "Congratulations!" A
  woman said, "I'm sure he'll know Fred Smith."?"Who's Fred Smith?"?"He's my son." "Does he study
 in the university, too?" "No, "said the woman. "He is one of the professors."

l. The story happened in _____.

    A. America?
    B. France?
    C. Germany?
    D. England

2. Mr. and Mrs. Turner were happy because _____.

    A. their son did well in his lessons
    B. they have a big farm
?C. they have a good harvest
    D. their son studied at a middle school

3. Mrs. Turner wanted everyone to know _____.

   A. her son finished middle school
    B. her son was handsome
?C. her son was going to study in a university
    D. her son was very friendly to others

4. Mrs. Turner spoke so loudly in the bus that _____.

    A. her friend could hear her
    B. all the people could hear her
?C. she hoped to make all the people happy
?D. she hoped they would say congratulations to her

5. Which of the following is true? _____.

    A. The woman wasn't interested in Mrs. Turner's words
?B. Mrs. Turner knew nothing about the famous university
?C. The woman wanted to stop Mrs. Turner from showing off (?模)
?D. The woman next to Mrs. Turner wanted to show off her son, too

     A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer in Britain when he was
 working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.
? The meteorite weighed (重量) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百万) years old.
? "I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the trees coming and going," he said.
 "I didn't know what it was."
? Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth
  every year, but only very few are found. Mr. Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the
 Second World War.
? Mr. Pettifer is glad. "When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange."

1. The meteorite was _____ Mr Pettifer when it fell down.

    A. close to?
    B. far from?
    C. hitting?
    D. coming to

2. The meteorite was already _____ years old.

    A. 40,000,000,000 ??
    B. 40,000,000
    C. 400,000,000 ??
     D. 4,000,000,000

3. Mr. Pettifer found the tops of the trees coming and going because _____.

    A. the trees were afraid?
    B. the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving
?C. it was going to rain?
    D. the moving was made by wind

4. _____ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often each year.

    A. Quite a few ?
    B. Some ?
    C. Few ?
    D. Many

5. Mr. Pettifer was _____ to see the falling of the meteorite.

    A. happy ??
    B. afraid ??
    C. sorry ??
    D. angry