(C)
Thanksgiving Day is a very special day for people in the United States. In that country they celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving Day, but they do it on the second Monday of October. In Britain, where the festival is called “ Harvest Festival”, people celebrate earlier in the year, in September.
A harvest is the fruit you take from the trees and the crops you take from the ground. In North America, Europe, and England, harvest time for most fruit and crops is in the special day of the year. They thank God for the good things that have happened during the year and for the good harvest they have had. People usually take small boxes of fruit, flowers, and vegetables to their churches to show their thanks.
The first thanksgiving service in North America took place on 4 December 1610 when 38 English people arrived in America to make their home in the new country. They held this service not to thank God for the harvest, but to thank God for their safe journey. The next year, many more English people arrived. They had a bad winter, but fortunately the harvest was good. They decided to celebrate with a big meal. They shot and killed small animals to eat and cooked everything outside on large fires. About 90 Indians also came to the meal. Everyone ate at tables outside their houses and played games together. The festival lasted three days.
A Thanksgiving Day celebration was held every year for a long time, but not always on the same day of the year. Then, in 1789, President George Washington named 26 November as the Day of Thanksgiving. Almost a hundred years later, President Abraham Lincoln changed the date, and said that the last Thursday in November should be Thanksgiving Day.
Nowadays, North Americans around the world get together with their families on this day to eat good food and have a happy time.
39. The story is about ____.
A. festivals                   B. an American festival  
C. English people in America    D. giving thanks for everything
40. The last Thursday in November in November is ____.
A. a festival in every country in the world
B. Thanksgiving Day in the United States
C. the day farmers pick fruit from the trees
D. the day the first English People came to America
41. On thanksgiving Day people ____.
A. plant their crops.                 B. celebrate a safe journey
C. thank God for a good harvest        D. harvest their fruit and crops.
42. At the first thanksgiving service in North America, the people ____.
A. shot a lot of small animals
B. thanked God for a safe journey
C. thanked God for a good harvest
D. had a big dinner outside their houses.

C 
People have sailed （航行）the world in quite small boats . It is not an easy thing to do. Sometimes the weather gets bad. That can be the end of everyone in it. Accidents can happen easily and quickly .
One family once had an accident with some big fish. The fish swam under their boat and bit（咬）holes in it. Sea water came in, of course , and the boat soon sank （下沉）. However, these people had another smaller boat----a life-boat, and they all got into that. They lived and hoped for many days. They ate and slept, and they always hoped…At last a ship found them .
How do people live in a very small life-boat? Perhaps for weeks or months? They must be strong in every way . They must have hope----they must want to live: But you cannot eat and drink hope.
You cannot drink sea water: Drink a lot of sea water and you will quickly die . Sailors （水手）can drink rain water. They must catch rain water in their boat. They must also catch fish and birds for food . Life-boats do not often carry a cooker, so the sailors cannot cook their food. Raw （生的）fish and bird-meat is not very nice . But in a life-boat the sailors must eat raw food, or they will die.
What do people think about in a life-boat? They think about land , a warm bed, dry clothes , fresh water and food , food , food .
11．When sailors' boat sinks, their life-boat gives them ______.  
A．food         B．beds        C．rain water        D．hope
12．One family once had an accident at sea, because ______       
A．their boat was caught in bad weather
B．the boat knocked against a rock and sea water came in
C．some fish bit through the bottom（底部）of their boat
D．none of them knew how to sail the sea
13．Sailors can catch ______ for food and drink at sea in a life-boat .    
A．rain water                                     B．fish and birds
C．both sea water and rain water         D．both A and B
14．Life-boats do not often carry a cooker, which is ______.  
A．something used for cooking  B．food for cooking
C．a large basin  D．a person who cooks food
15．Which of the following is NOT TRUE?       
A．Sailing around the world in quite small boats is not easy.
B．All the food sailors have in a life-boat is cooked fish and bird-meat.
C．Anyone who drinks a lot of sea water will die .
D．No one can live for weeks in a life-boat unless he is strong and wants to live . 

C 

People have sailed （航行）the world in quite small boats . It is not an easy thing to do. Sometimes the weather gets bad. That can be the end of everyone in it. Accidents can happen easily and quickly .

One family once had an accident with some big fish. The fish swam under their boat and bit（咬）holes in it. Sea water came in, of course , and the boat soon sank （下沉）. However, these people had another smaller boat----a life-boat, and they all got into that. They lived and hoped for many days. They ate and slept, and they always hoped…At last a ship found them .

How do people live in a very small life-boat? Perhaps for weeks or months? They must be strong in every way . They must have hope----they must want to live: But you cannot eat and drink hope.

You cannot drink sea water: Drink a lot of sea water and you will quickly die . Sailors （水手）can drink rain water. They must catch rain water in their boat. They must also catch fish and birds for food . Life-boats do not often carry a cooker, so the sailors cannot cook their food. Raw （生的）fish and bird-meat is not very nice . But in a life-boat the sailors must eat raw food, or they will die.

What do people think about in a life-boat? They think about land , a warm bed, dry clothes , fresh water and food , food , food .

11．When sailors' boat sinks, their life-boat gives them ______.  

A．food         B．beds        C．rain water        D．hope

12．One family once had an accident at sea, because ______       

A．their boat was caught in bad weather

B．the boat knocked against a rock and sea water came in

C．some fish bit through the bottom（底部）of their boat

D．none of them knew how to sail the sea

13．Sailors can catch ______ for food and drink at sea in a life-boat .    

A．rain water                                     B．fish and birds

C．both sea water and rain water         D．both A and B

14．Life-boats do not often carry a cooker, which is ______.  

A．something used for cooking  B．food for cooking

C．a large basin  D．a person who cooks food

15．Which of the following is NOT TRUE?       

 A．Sailing around the world in quite small boats is not easy.

B．All the food sailors have in a life-boat is cooked fish and bird-meat.

C．Anyone who drinks a lot of sea water will die .

D．No one can live for weeks in a life-boat unless he is strong and wants to live . 

A strange thing happens to nearly everybody at night. They turn off the lights, put up the covers and close their eyes. Six or seven hours later, they wake up again. Strange, isn’t it?

    Sleep puzzles science. Scientists and doctors would rather talk about why one can’t fall asleep. They are not so sure what causes sleep.

    The best conditions for sleep, they say, are good health and meal neither too big nor too small. No worries and a comfortable place to sleep in are important, too. They advise against two in one bed.

    Strange things happen during sleep. For example, you move often. You would feel tired if you didn’t. You also dream. Part of your brain is still awake when you dream. Dreaming happens when the memory and imagination parts of your brain are still awake. Experiments have shown that bad dreams may be caused by a stomachache.

    Don’t worry if you dream. Some great stories and poems were begun while the writers slept.

41. Sleep puzzles scientists because they are not certain _______. 

why one can’t fall asleep

why one wakes up six or seven sleeping hours later

both A and B

D. what causes sleep

42. You would feel tired during sleep if you ________.

A. move often           B. sleep on your back     C. didn’t move    D. went back too later

43. Dreaming happens when _______.

   A. you are in a deep sleep                           B. you are not comfortable

   C. part of our brain is still awake               D. there’s too much noise  in the room

44. The best title for this passage is ________.

   A. Why You Dream                              B. The Strangeness of Sleep

   C. What Happens During Sleep            D. The Cause of Sleep    

Big things were happening in my life the summer after I turned 13．In the middle of that summer， my parents   1  my entire world and turned it upside down   2   they told me they were getting a divorce．I couldn’t believe that our family was going to  3  ．Though I always knew my parents weren’t very happy and they often   4  ， I still wanted my family to stay the same.

My life changed completely  5   the divorce．My mother and I moved into a small apartment across town，  6   my father and brother， Bill， stayed in our house．I now became a   7   whenever I went to see my dad and Bill on the weekends．And immediately I had my soon-to-be stepfather， Dan， whom I showed no  8   in．I was depressed， especially after Dan and my mother married and I realized that there was no  9   that things could change back to the way they were．

Even though I   10   all Dan’s attempts to get to know me and wasn’t very   11   to him， he never gave up on me．  12  ， I began to trust him．I realized that we actually had some things in   13  ，especially when it came to movies and TV shows．We   14   a lot of time together hanging out watching TV．That gave us a chance to talk and get to know each other．

Better still，Dan showed an interest in me that I had never experienced from my own father．Dan was always around when I needed   15  on school or friends．Once I began to warm up to Dan，the three of us began spending a lot of time together．We often went out to eat and took short trips．  16  ，I discovered that I had the happy family that I had always wanted.

I now realize my parents were   17   about getting the divorce．Their divorce was the best thing to happen for all of us．My father also found happiness—he  18   and had another child， my half-sister， Michelle.

At 13， I learned an important   19   —change is not always the worst thing that can   20 ．Sometimes，it is just what we need the most.

1．A．created                B．shook                 C．entered              D．occupied

2．A．unless                 B．if                       C．when               D．until

3．A．break up               B．hold up              C．keep up            D．show up

4．A．whispered            B．fought                C．talked                D．competed

5．A．throughout           B．beyond                C．before                D．after

6．A．where                B．although             C．while                  D．that

7．A．visitor                 B．relative               C．neighbor            D．stranger

8．A．confidence           B．interest                C．fear                  D．anger

9．A．doubt                   B．difference          C．point                   D．way  

10．A．forgot                B．supported            C．resisted               D．valued

11．A．serious                B．nice                    C．bad                     D．generous

12．A．Gradually            B．Immediately       C．Usually               D．Regularly

13．A．mind                  B．trouble               C．common             D．order

14．A．spent                  B．wasted               C．lost                    D．saved

15．A．experience           B．information        C．impression           D．advice

16．A．However            B．Besides                C．Eventually           D．Occasionally

17．A．wrong         B．confident        C．guilty             D．right

18．A．remarried            B．returned              C．changed             D．left

19．A．method               B．truth                  C．skill                   D．word

20．A．exist                  B．remain              C．continue             D．happen