阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。(共10分，每小题2分)

It's March, 2050.
Frank and Mary Smith wake up in their comfortable house in the morning and switch on the bedroom computer to get the latest news. They used to read the Times, but changed to electronic newspapers many years ago.                                                
There is the usual news about space: another space flight has returned from Mars and scientists have discovered a new planet. Then they turn to business news: the US dollar has risen greatly in Shanghai, one of the world's leading business centers. Mary tells the computer to buy 5,000 dollars, and there is a quick response that it has been done.
As they watch the screen, Mary orders one of the household robots to make coffee for them. Frank disappears into the study to join a video conference with his partners around the world. He is a computer engineer, working for several companies. This is his third job: he used to be in marketing and then television.
Mary has a quick look at the shopping channels - the usual selection of electric cars, household robots and cheap travel offers - before picking up the video phone to talk to her assistant. She also has a job and she is doing medical research. Both she and Frank used to have an office desk in London, but in 2014 they decided to move to the seaside and work from home.
Frank and Mary have one daughter, Louise, who also has her own workstation at home. She goes to school only one day a week, mainly to play with other students. Classrooms disappeared in 2030 because there was no longer any need for them: communications systems have made it much easier to learn at home.
Louise, now thirteen, is studying Chinese at present, which has become a world language as
important as English. Louise has many Chinese friends. They communicate by computer.
According to the family doctor, Louise will live to at least 130. Her wish is to work for a
few decades (十年) and then spend her time on music and painting.
【小题1】Do Frank and Mary get the latest news on the computer in the morning?
【小题2】Who makes coffee for Mary and Frank?
【小题3】What does Frank do?
【小题4】What are the two world languages in 2050?
【小题5】What do you think of Louise's life in 2050? Why?

根据短文内容判断对错，对的选择A，错的选择B
This is a boy. His name is Tom. He has a nice cat. It is an English cat. His friends are Lucy and Mike. They have cats, too. Their names are Mimi and Maomao. They are Chinese cats. The English cat is five. The Chinese cats are three. They like their cats.
Today they can’t find the English cat and the Chinese cats. They ask an old man, “Where are our cats?”“I don’t know.” he says. “Are they in the tree?” Tom and Mike ask. “Listen, listen!” Lucy says. “Miaow, miaow...”“Oh, over there.” They go to the tree, and carry(抱) them down.
【小题1】Lucy has a good English cat.
【小题2】Tom has two friends.
【小题3】The English cat is three and the Chinese cats are five.
【小题4】Tom and his friends have three cats.
【小题5】The cats are in the old man’s house.

Jack Black has a big ___1___. His grandfather and grandmother ___2___ in England. They are at home. Their ___3___ are Nick Black and Anna Black. But Jack’s parents are in China. Jack’s ___4___ is an English teacher. He works in a middle school. Jack’s mother ___5___ a teacher. She is a doctor (医生). Jack and his ___6___ Mary are students. They go to the same (同一个) ___7___ in Beijing. Jack is ___8___ Class One, Grade Seven. At school Jack has ___9___ good friends. They are Lin Feng, Li Lei, and Sun Weiming. Mary has many good friends, too. They ___10___ their school.
1. A. bag        B. room        C. family        D. school
2. A. is          B. are         C. be            D. am
3. A. names      B. numbers     C. address        D. ID cards
4. A. sister       B. mother      C. brother        D. father
5. A. is          B. isn’t        C. don’t          D. are
6. A. sister       B. brother.      C. friend         D. uncle
7. A. class       B. grade        C. school         D. classroom
8. A. at          B. in.          C. on            D. under
9. A. two        B. three        C. four          D. five
10.A. have       B. like         C. meet          D. look

Air is a colorless, tasteless and invisible（看不见的）gas that is around us. An “empty” drinking glass and an “empty” room, in fact, are not really empty. Each is filled with air. When the glass is filled with water, the water pushes the air out of the glass.
Air, as a gas, has no definite shape, but because it is matter, it takes up space and it has weight. It is easy to prove that air is something that takes up space. Stuff a piece of dry cloth（布）into the bottom of a glass so that it will not fall out when the glass is turned upside down. Push the upside down glass, holding straight up and down, into a jar of water till the glass is completely covered. When the glass is taken out of the water, the cloth is still dry. The air inside the glass shows that it takes up space and keeps the water from coming in.
【小题1】Since air is matter, it has ________.

Bend over, take a deep breath and drink some water！This is just one of hundreds of pieces of advice you might get if you have the hiccups（打嗝）.Hiccups are so mysterious(神秘的)．We really don’t know why they start and why they stop．
Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups．Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well．Others eat a little sugar．Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it．
An American man named Jack O’Leary said that he had hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years．He tried 60，000 cures，but none of them worked．Finally he prayed（向…祈祷） to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately．
A British worker didn’t stop his hiccups until eight months later. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well．He tried them all，but the hiccups continued．Finally，he drank a “secret” mixture(混合物) someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone．
Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure．
【小题1】        might be the best cure for hiccups.