"Dreams may be more important than sleep. We all need to dream." some scientists say. 
        Dreams take up about one quarter of our sleeping time. People have several dreams each night. Dreams
are like short films.They are usually in colour. Some dreams are like old films.They come to us over and over
again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find
an answer.
        Some people get new ideas about their work from dreams. They may have been thinking about their work
all day. These thoughts can be carried over into dreams. 
        Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't remember the dream.
Dreams can disappear quickly from memory.
        Too much dreaming can be harmful. The more we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work
when we dream. This is why we may have a long sleep but we feel tired when we wake up.

1. If Jack slept eight hours last night, there was about              dream in the night.

A. a two-hour
B. a one-hour
C. a one-quarter
D. an eight-hour

2. Why do some people often dream about their work?

A. Because they are happy in the daytime.
B. Because they are not interested in their work.
C. Because they may be this thinking about their work all day.
D. Because they have too much work to do.

3. The main idea of the passage is that             .

A. what a dream is
B. people like to sleep
C. dreams are like films
D. we always remember dreams

   Trees are useful to men in three important ways: They provide them with wood and other products (产品),
they give them shade (树荫), and they help to prevent drought and floods.
   Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, men have not realized that the third of these services is the most
important. In their eagerness (渴望) to make money from trees, some people have cut trees down in large
numbers, only to find that without them they have lost the best friends they had. And besides (此外), they are
usually too careless to plant and look after new trees, so the forests slowly disappear.
   This doesn't only mean that men will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious: where there are
trees, their roots (根) break up soil-allowing the rain to sink in and also bind (固定) the soil, thus (因而)
preventing it from being washed away easily, but where there are no trees, the rain falls carrying away
the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains (剩下) but worthless desert.

1. Land becomes desert after all trees arte cut down, because ____.

A. there is too much rain
B. there are no more trees to keep the rich top-soil from being carried away by floods
C. there is a strong wind
D. roots of trees break up the soil

2. People cut down many trees because ____.

A. they wanted to get wood from them
B. they wanted to get money from them
C. they didn't realize the importance of them
D. all the above

3. Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Tree roots can make the top-soil rich and the ground hard.
B. Trees can make the rain sink into the ground.
C. Trees can prevent drought and floods.
D. Tree roots can take away the top-soil

    To master a language one must be able to speak and understand the spoken language as well as to read
and write. Lenin and his wife Krupskaya translated a long English book into Russian. But when they went
to England in 1902, English people couldn't understand a word they said and they couldn't understand what
was said to them. These days more and more foreigners are coming to China and more Chinese are going
out to foreign countries to work or study. So the spoken language is becoming more and more important.
     Speaking, of course, can't go without listening. If you want to pronounce a word correctly, first you
must hear it correctly. Thy sounds of the Chinese and English languages are not exactly the same. If you
don't listen carefully, you'll find it difficult or even impossible to understand the native speakers.
     Well, what about writing? Like speaking, it's to exchange ideas. People generally use shorter words and
shorter sentences in their writing. The important thing is to make your idea clear in your head and then to
write it in clear lively language.
     Chinese students read far too slowly. If you read fast, you understand better. If you read too slowly,
by the time you have reached the end of a page you have forgotten what the beginning is about. When you
meet with new words, don't look them up in the dictionary. Guess the meaning from the context. You may
not guess quite correctly the first time, but as new words come up again and again in different contexts,
their meaning will become clearer and clearer. If you look up every word, you'll never finish a book. 
     Students of a foreign language need a particular knowledge, the knowledge of the life, history and
geography of the people whose language they are studying. They should study these subjects in the foreign
language, not only in translation. In this way one can kill two birds with one stone: learn a foreign language
and get some knowledge of the foreign country at the same time.

1. In his first point the writer told us ______.

A. how to speak English
B. how to read and write
C. why spoken English is important
D. why English people couldn't understand Lenin

2. In his last point the writer advised us ______.

A. to kill two birds with one stone
B. to learn two languages at a time
C. to study all the subjects in a foreign language
D. to get some knowledge of the foreign country whose language you are studying

3. In the fourth paragraph the writer gave some advice on ______.

A. how to read faster
B. how to guess the meaning from the context
C. how to look up new words in the dictionary
D. how to grasp the general meaning of a passage

4. "To kill two birds with one stone" means ______.

A. to get some particular knowledge
B. to get more than what one pays
C. the stone is too big
D. the birds are blind enough

    1. Many people like animals and take them as their pets. Nowadays pet hospitals are very busy. We need
kind persons who love animals to work in busy animal hospitals.
    2. Scientists think that pets will probably be much smaller because people in the future will be living in
much smaller spaces. Scientists are already working on making very small farm animals. (1)The same things
might be done to make smaller cats and dogs.
    3. It's said that some day you might own a panther as a pet. Scientists might have to start turning wild
animals into pets. (2)This might be the only way to save them from dying out.
    4. What about a robot for a pet? This may sound silly, but it could become true. Robot dogs have been
made to bark like real dogs. These"pets" might become more and more popular in the future. After all, robots
don't lose hair or chew on things the way real pets do.
    5. Lots of people miss their pets while they are on holiday. One hotel in Minnesota has solved this problem.
They lend cats to their guests. Many experts believe this idea will become more and more popular. (3)It is
very possible that in the future you will be able to order a pet, as well as room service, at a hotel.

1. 将（1）处改为同义句。
    We ________ ________ the same thing to make smaller cats and dogs.
2. 将（2）处翻译成汉语。
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3. 根据（3）处完成下面的句子。
    It's possible ________ you ________ be able to order a pet and room service at hotel in the future.