A．failed     B．comfort        C．most     D．stop     E．invent

F．material   G．much trouble    H．aren’t    I．when     J．sit down

K．pleased with    L．angry with

Thomas Edison lived in America. He invented plenty of electrical appliances (电器)and   1   people know him.

At that time there was no electric lamp (电灯) in the world. And it brought people   2  . Young Edison decided to   3   it. He didn’t know which material was suited to be a lamp filament (灯丝). He   4   many times and he spent a lot of time on it. Some friends of his asked him to   5   the experiments but he didn’t listen to them and tried his best to find the   6  .

One afternoon a friend of his came to visit him. He was doing his experiment in the lab   7   the man came in. But he only asked his friend to   8   and didn’t stop to talk with him. The man sat for a long time and Edison said nothing to him. He was   9   Edison and said. “You’ve done the experiments 1,200 times but you’ve failed 1,200 times.” “You’re right, my friend,” Edison went on doing his experiments and said, “But I have known that 1,200 materials   10  to be a lamp filament.”

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6．           7．          8．           9．           10．         

XI、阅读理解。（20分）

（A）

Many people today like reading stories about UFO. Many people in different countries are studying the UFO.

There are some different sayings for UFO. Among those sayings, the most popular one for UFO is that UFOs are strange flying objects and they carry strange creatures to the earth from other stars. We can call them aliens.

UFO scientists and many people believed this saying. Some people said that they saw a few UFOs landing on the earth. They seemed to be objects rather like big plates. Some people said that they saw some strange visitors coming out of the UFOs.

Some people make mistakes when they say they have seen UFOs high in the sky. Perhaps they see a weather balloon or an uncommon plane or the light they see in the sky comes from the ground. Sometimes they see the light from the moon.

But these are a lot of others we can’t understand. It may take many years to find a clear answer and then the people will give UFO another name.

根据短文内容，判断下列句子正（T）、误（F）。（5分）

 (   )1．UFOs are the flying things that are still unknown to us.

 (   )2．The most popular saying is that UFOs may carry strange creatures from other stars.

 (   )3．It is clear that some space visitors from other stars are living among us.

 (   )4．Sometimes people may think unusual planes as UFOs.

 (   )5．The UFOs are living high in the sky and look like large plates.

（B）

a woman was collecting money for a church charity. The money she collected was going to be given to poor children who had no parents to take care of them. She went from apartment to apartment and from house to house. She knocked on doors and asked for money. She always said the same thing. Good morning, I’m collecting for a church charity. Please give generously. We need $5,000. Then she held out a collecting box. Most people put a few coins in the box.

An artist lived in one of the apartments. He opened the door. “Good morning.” she said. “I’m collecting for a church charity. Please give generously. We need $5,000.” The artist thought for a moment, then he said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t have any money. However, I’ll give you a painting. It’s worth $ 400.” The woman thanked the artist and took the painting away.

A week later she called on him again. “I’m sorry to trouble you again,” she said, “but we still need more money. I need another $ 100. Can you help?” “Of course,” the artist said. “I’ll increase the value of my painting to $ 500.”

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。（5分）

 (   )6．Who was the woman collecting money for?

           A．Poor children.                                 B．Herself.

           C．Her friends.                                     D．A church.

(   )7．What did most people give her?

           A．A lot of money.                               B．A few dollars.

           C．Paintings.                                        D．Very little money.

(   )8．Why didn’t the artist give money to her?

           A．He was not a generous man.

           B．He did not have any money.

           C．He had too many paintings.

           D．His paintings were worth a lot of money.

(   )9．How did the artist help the woman to get another $ 100?

           A．He gave her some more money.

           B．He gave her another painting.

           C．He gave her a more valuable painting.

           D．He told her to add $ 100 to the value of his painting.

(   )10．Did the woman collect enough money at last?

           A．No, she didn’t.                                B．Yes, she did.

           C．We don’t know.                               D．Yes, she does.

（C）

almost every family in America or England buys at least one copy of a newspaper each day. Some people buy as many as two or three different papers.

(11)         Newspapers supply us with news about events in our hometown, in our country, and in other parts of the world. Today we can read about important things that took place in foreign countries on the same day they happened, even in countries far away. (12)         In those times, news was often passed from one person to another and was never entirely true. Newspapers today supply us with more than just what happened in our country or in other countries. (13)          

if we want to find out what films are being shown, or what plays or concerts we can go to, we can look them up in newspapers.

In many countries people put notices in newspapers if they are trying to get a job, hunting for a house that they can rent, or even looking for a person who is lost.

(14)         For example, some made ? up news harms people, especially famous people. So when we read the news, we should use our heads and shouldn’t believe all that in them.

Newspapers are not for the blind, for they have no sound. (15)          .

根据短文内容，从下面A―E五个选项中选出能填入短文空白处的正确答案。（10分）

A．Hundreds of years ago, news of things took months or even years to travel from one country to another.

B．On the other hand, some newspapers supply false news to their readers.

C．If newspapers had sound, blind people could listen to them.

D．Why do people read newspapers?

E．If we want to know what the weather will be like, we can read the weather reports.

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