Difficult times often bring out the best in people. Many well-known people come to help those who are in trouble. And this was the case for basketball player Yao Ming. He hosted a television show in Shanghai and raised US $ 300,000 to help researchers (研究员) find a medical cure. Fund-raising, or charity, is an act of goodwill(好意) towards others.
Charities in the West have more ways. Look at a typical day for Ruth, a rich woman in the UK, for example. Ruth wakes up in the morning and collects her post. There’s a letter addressed to her with a picture of a half-dead, beaten(筋疲力尽的) horse. It’s from a charity asking Ruth to donate money to save the animals. She turns on the television, and sees a picture of a wide–eyed child dying of hunger in Africa with a request (请求) for money to help the child. The tickets for the charity shows often cost her a lot of money, but she doesn’t mind because most of the money is going to a charity that fights AIDS. She feels good about going because she’s helping the sick.
Edna, a little old lady, looks after a second-hand shop—a charity shop. Any profit (收益) it has made goes to a cancer(癌症) charity. Now that she doesn’t have to work, she has lots of time to offer her services for free.
For people like Yao Ming, Ruth and Edna, charity is a virtue (美德) that holds the same importance in life as faith and hope. “As you look back on your life, the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others,” said Scottish writer Henry Drummond.
【小题1】Yao Ming hosted a television show to _____.

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What will the home of the future look like? A team of architects (建造师) in Hong Kong say that city homes will be tiny, as populations continue to grow and space becomes more expensive. They have designed “space flats”. 83它们只有30 平米大。These flats have three small rooms, a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom, as well as a balcony (阳台),but everything is carefully planned to make good use of the limited space.
The living room is the main room of the flat. It can be used as an office, a kitchen or even a second bedroom. There is a sofa that can be changed into a bed. The dining table can be changed into a computer desk. And, if not needed, both the sofa-bed and the table can be folded away and stored into a small apace in the wall. There is a flat-screen TV, which can also serve as a computer monitor. In one corner of the room, a small cooker, a microwave oven and a miniature refrigerator are hidden out of sight.
The other rooms are small but useful. The bathroom contains a toilet and a shower. The double bed in the bedroom can also be a sofa, if necessary, The balcony has enough room for two people to sit and enjoy the view from the block of flats. All the rooms have high ceiling to provide as much storage space as possible, while the flat has large windows to let in plenty of sunlight.
“Space flats “are now being tested in a building in Hong Kong. “It’s wonderful,” said one resident(居民) “84. The flat is so well designed that you feel that there is plenty of space”
【小题1】Why do the architects think that “Space flats “will be important in the future?
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【小题2】How many rooms can a “space flat ” have in all ?
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【小题3】将划线句子译成英语。
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【小题4】将划线句子译成汉语。
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【小题5】请给短文拟一个合适的题目。
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These days computer games are becoming more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along the __1__have changed into computer game houses in order to get more __2___. These places are always crowded with people.
In the computer game houses, people __3__a lot of money matching on the machine. It’s __4__for one to beat a computer, but one can do well after trying again and again. People want to __5__when they play computer games. The more they __6__, the more they want to win, and at last they even can’t __7__without it.
The result(结果) is that some people don’t want to __8__and they play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are __9__. They don’t want to have __10__. When school is over, they rush to the computer game houses near their __11__. Some of them can get enough money from their __12__. Some of them are not __13__enough to get the money. So they have to steal（偷） or rob（抢） others’ money and become __14__.
Computer game addiction(上瘾) is a(n) __15__problem in our life. Something has to be done to stop it.
(   ) 1 A streets         B schools      C towns        D cities
(   ) 2 A boys             B money        C computers    D houses
(  ) 3 A take           B spend        C cost         D pay
(   ) 4 A possible         B easy         C good         D hard
(   ) 5 A read             B learn        C win           D download
(   ) 6 A lose             B try          C waste         D watch
(   ) 7 A come         B eat          C study        D live
(   ) 8 A watch        B win          C stay there   D work
(   ) 9 A better       B exciting         C even worse   D interesting
(   ) 10 A lessons         B games        C families         D sports
(   ) 11 A classes         B rooms        C schools      D shops
(   ) 12 A classmates  B teachers         C sisters       D parents
(   ) 13 A lucky       B unlucky      C careful      D polite
(   ) 14 A good        B bad          C badly        D worse
(   ) 15 A important   B serious      C unusual      D wonderful

根据短文内容完成下列句子，每空一词。

Mike and Peter are good friends. They are students. They go to school five days a week. Mike’s birthday is in the eleventh month of a year. Peter’s birthday is October 1st. That’s National Day. Mike likes playing basketball, but Peter likes playing soccer. Mike often wears sports shoes to play basketball. He likes white sports shoes. Mike’s birthday is coming. Peter goes to a sports store with his friend, Bill. They have a
look at basketballs and sports shoes. At last, they buy a pair of white sports shoes for Mike. When Mike sees the shoes, he is very happy.
【小题1】Peter’s birthday is_______        
【小题2】Mike likes_______        in          sports shoes.
【小题3】Peter goes to a_______          with _______
【小题4】Peter and his friend         a pair of sports shoes         Mike.
【小题5】        Mike sees the shoes, he is very

【小题1】They have planted about five ________(千) trees in and around the town in the past few years．
【小题2】I’d like eight ________(条)of bread．
【小题3】She will be the________ (第五十一个)to speak at the meeting．
【小题4】He didn’t go to bed __________ (直到)his father came back．
【小题5】Where is your mother？ She’s __________(准备) dinner in the kitchen.
【小题6】Whose bag is this? It’s one of my ________(邻居).
【小题7】There are two hundred________ (书架)in our school library．
【小题8】Why don’t you visit our__________ (当地的)farms with us?
【小题9】I hope we can have less _________(污染)in the environment in the future．
【小题10】一How many students are there in the dining room now?
一 _________(没有一个)．