Jack is the name of a game that is quite popular with children. To play jack, you’ll need a small rubber ball ten small metal objects: jacks. The rules for this game are very simple. To begin, you put the ten jacks on the floor or ground in front of you. Throw the ball up, pick up one jack and then catch the ball. Keep the jack in your hand and then continue to pick up the other jacks one at a time. You lose your turn if you do not catch the ball, or if you do not pick up a jack or you drop any jacks from your hands.

When you finish all ten jacks, you now try to do the same thing again but with two jacks at a time. This is more difficult, of course. You will lose your turn if you do not pick up exactly two jacks or if you make any of the other mistakes.

1. To pick up a jack, you have to _____.

A. throw one of the jacks first

B. throw the first jack you’ve caught

C. throw the rubber ball into the air first

D. catch the falling ball first

2. How many times will you pick up jacks when you play with two jacks at a time without making any mistakes to win the game?

A. 5　　　　　　　　 B 3 　 　　　　　 C. 4 　　　　　 D. 6

3. Which of the following is true?

A. The name of a jack is very popular with children

B .The children like the game only for its simple rules.

C. You always do the same thing when you finish all ten jacks.

D. You have to pick up one jack as fast as possible before you catch the ball

请阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。

    首先阅读以下学校各社团的介绍。

   阅读以下学生的相关信息。匹配适合他们的社团。

Cherry wants to join a club that will keep her fit and active but because she has a part-time job every workday evening she is only available to take part on the weekends.

David is a new student at the university, whose major is English literature. He is a little shy so is hoping to join a club that can help him get to know new people and build his confidence.

Bonnie is majoring in drama and wants to be a scriptwriter when she graduates. She is interested in discovering new stories that she may one day be able to turn into movies. As her home is far from the university she is only free during the day to take part.

Betty is studying film making and one day hopes to become a director. But she thinks her ability to create beautiful visual images is not strong enough so she has recently purchased a camera to help her practice.

Jack is a first year geography student who would like to learn more about the geography of the local area. He is also worried about passing the English test that all students must take at the end of their first year of study. He has to return to his home to help his parents every weekend so is only free during weekdays.

Cast your mind back to the past twenty years and hardly did anyone have their own email account. The Internet had just taken off in 1991 and people were only using office and PC­based email exchanges.

In the mid 1990s external email providers appeared. The most famous of these was Hotmail, the first free email provider and web­based email service. Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith launched Hotmail on July 4, 1996. And Microsoft took note of and bought Hotmail for $400 million on December 30, 1997, a nice birthday present for Bhatia who turned 29 that day. It was relaunched as MSN Hotmail and in 2007 was relaunched again as Windows Live Hotmail.

Fast forward the present day and most of us have at least a personal web­based email account. It seems impossible to live without them. One of the biggest advantages of email is the fact that communication has become so much easier, especially with those across different time zones. Email takes seconds to send a message whereas letters, as we used to communicate by, could take weeks. Of course there was the fax, that beeping invention from the 1980s, but it wasn’t as secure as email and you never knew if the person on the other end had picked up your fax or if it had got lost somewhere in the office.

In conclusion, one of the best inventions from the 1990s has to be email. But sometimes people are too closely connected to their email and have a compulsion to check it several times a day. At work, people have become lazy and instead of going to speak to the person sitting next to them, they send an email，causing an in box to pile up with more time spent reading email and responding rather than working. Clearly, an invention that saved time because of its quick and speedy connection can now also cause us to waste a lot of time.

1.The earliest web-based email came into being probably _______.

A. in 1991                            B. in 1996                   C. in 1997                   D. in 2007

2.The author mentions “fax” in the third paragraph in order to tell us that _______.

A. it is exactly as good as email

B. it is much better than email

C. it is less convenient than email

D. it is easier and faster than email

3.The underlined word “compulsion” in Paragraph 4 probably means “_______”.

A. strong desire                  B. common sense               C. special curiosity          D. general idea

4.Which is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. We should check email boxes frequently.

B. Lazy people like sending an email.

C. Email brings us great convenience.

D. Good inventions also cause problems.