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摘要：Something About Mr. Jackson Mr. Jackson is a businessman. His job is to buy jade, gold and 57 expensive jacket. Most people in this city buy and wear these 58 jackets in cold January. He often gets to Kenya. It is many 59. many kilometers away far off his country. Mr. Jackson arrived 60. here by jets last Monday morning. He went to Kenya in June 61. and came back in July. Mrs. Jackson is left-handed. He cuts 62 meat with her left hand. But she is a good cook. She had asked 63 the man in the market to kill a fatter sheep for her. This sheep is 64 about 30 kilos weight. It is so heavy she can’t lift it herself and 65 the shopkeeper has promised to send it to her home in lorry. She 66 is going to cook in the kitchen. She is going to cook two larger 67 sheep legs. She will put some jam on that. Jibla, Jill and lots of 68 friends of the Jacksons’ will come to a lunch with Mr. Jackson. 69 They will like the lunch and eat lots of nice food. There will be 70 dance in the garden after his house late in the evening. They are 71 going to put on all the large new lights, and listen to some music, 72 and dance around the fire in a garden for a long time at night. 73

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Look at the centre circles of Diagram (图)A and Diagram B. Which of the centre circles looks larger? In fact, they are exactly the same size.

Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase? Or two faces？Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the same time.

“What’s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see. Don’t worry. Here is how it goes:

When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret（解读）the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it “visual illusion(视觉错误)”.

Movie makers often make use of visual illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of visual illusions.

【小题1 】Why does the centre circle in Diagram A look smaller than that in Diagram B?

A. something is wrong with our eyes

B. the two circles are not the same size

C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way

D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the other

【小题2 】 What do movie makers make use of visual illusions for ?

A. To help the actors look better

B. To make the actors much braver

C. To help the actors become stronger

D. To make the actors seem different in size

【小题 3】In the picture below, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD.

Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?

A. The second one.

B. The third one.

C. The fourth one.

D. The sixth one.

【小题 4】 What’s the right order according to the passage?

a. We look at things with our eyes.

b. Our brains interpret the messages.

c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.

d. Our eyes send messages to our brains.

A. a d b c B. c a b d C. a c d b D. b c a d

【小题 5】Where may this passage be from?

A. A letter B. An English newspaper

C. A science book D. An advertisement

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There is something about New Year's Eve. In Scotland the last day of the year is the 26_ important holiday of the winter,27 important than Christmas. On New Year's Eve friends and neighbors go about from house to house drinking to each other's health and wishing good luck. 28 New Year's Day. All shops and factories are closed and no 29 is done. Families meet together for a big meal and a family 30 , They often sing and dance all the night.
In England New Year's Day is not 31 holiday and people go to work as 32 But on New Year's Eve most people sit up till 33 "to see the new Year in" or they 34 to parties and dances. Most of the London hotels 35 a New Year's Eve dance.

【小题5】A, party B. work C. clean D. shopping

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Different from popular thoughts, sometimes flu（流感） is not caused by bad weather. It is caused by viruses in the body. 51 , A/H1N1 flu has been spreading in the most parts in the world. Some studies have now shown that one of 52 ways of spreading the viruses is through the air when 53 A/H1N1 flu-sufferer coughs or sneezes. However, its viruses can sometimes spread by 54 . After a flu-sufferer rubs his nose, the viruses might be spread to his hand. Then a friend 55 to visit him, they shake their hands. The friend then gets something 56 by hand, and several days 57, he is infected. A child 58 is carrying A/H1N1 viruses uses tissues（面纸） to clean his running nose, although his parents pick up the tissues and carefully throw 59 away, they fail to wash their hands, and they will catch the viruses, too. So it is important for you to wash your hands often, it will stop the viruses from 60 in a way.

B．the most usual

C．more unusual

D．the most unusual

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I am going to have a party tomorrow night. I told my mother that she needn’t do 42 for me. My friend Jane is coming, too. She would like to help me, 43 she can’t. Because she has a piano lesson in the morning and in the afternoon she has to babysit her sister. So I will do everything by myself. I try to make 44 party nice.
I sent invitation to my friends 45 . Now I am thinking about what I need to do tomorrow. Yes! I have to clean the room and do some shopping. I am going 46 some food, drinks and some fruit in the supermarket. I am going to make a shopping list 47 I go. I also have to decorate（装饰）the room. I need to do so many things, so I 48 see the movie “Da Vinci Code” after lunch. A terrible thing! The party begins 49 8 pm, so I must have my dinner 50 . I am tired after I finish 51 so many things and after dinner I can have a short rest.

A．yesterday	B．tomorrow
C．tomorrow morning	D．the day after tomorrow

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You have often __1__ people talk about work. Perhaps you have __2__ your friends about how hard you worked to get something done. However, you may have done no work __3_ you think you worked hard.
A boy is pushing a big box very hard, but the box is __4__ heavy for him to move and he may __5__ to push against the box. __6__ the language of science, he has not done __7__ work. Can you think you are working when you are studying or talking?
In science, work is only done when a force(力) moves something that has weight through a distance（距离）.
Work =" force" × distance moved.
__8_ you want to find out whether work is done, _9_ yourself, “Is a push or a pull moving something through a distance?” If your answer is __10_, then work is being done.

A．“Right”

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