October 1st, 2009

Dear Ann,

　　I hope that you and your children will be here in two weeks. My husband and I will go to meet you at the train station. Our town is small but it is nice and beautiful. Your son Tom can go to the sports center every day. He can play games and go swimming there. Jill is also lucky. My son has a cat and two sheep and I have two horses. She can play with them all day.

　　Dear Ann, please don't worry. I'm sure you’ll have a good time here.　　

See you soon.

With much love

Linda

(　　 )46.The letter was from 　　　　　.

　　　 　 A. Ann　 　　　　 B. Linda　　 C.Jill　　　 　　 D.Tom

(　　 )47.Ann and her children will go to Linda’s home on about　　　　 .

　　　 　 A.October 1　 　　　 B.October 7　　 　 C.October 15　 　 D.October 28

(　　 )48.Linda lives in　　　 .

　　　 　 A.a big city　　 　 B.a small town 　　 C.a big town　 　 D.a country

(　　 )49.Ann and her children are going to Linda’s home　　　 .

　　　 　 A.by bus 　　 B.by car　　 C.on foot　 D.by train

(　　 )50.From the letter we know that Tom loves 　　　 and Jill loves 　　　　 　　　 .

　　　　　A.sports, animals　 　B.music, animals

　　　　　C.sports, dancing 　　 D.animals, sports

Try this: for a whole day, forget about the clock. Eat when you’re hungry and sleep when you’re tired. What do you think will happen?
You may be surprised to find that your day is much like most other days. You’ll probably get hungry when you normally eat and tired when you normally sleep. Even though you don’t know what time it is, your body does.
Inside our bodies are several clocklike systems that follow a 24- hour cycle. Everyone is unique, which is why you might like to stay up late while your sister always wants to go to bed early.
Regularly staying up late can make kids do worse on tests and quizzes. And working shifts at night leads to higher rates of heart disease.
“There is a growing sense that when we eat and when we sleep are important parts of how healthy we are,” says Steven Shea, Director of the Sleep Disorders Research Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
“During the night, we are prepared to sleep,” Shea says. “During the day, we are prepared to eat and move around, If you reverse ( 颠倒) what you are doing, everything is out of phase. That can have adverse consequences.
【小题1】What does the underlined sentence suggest?

A man and a woman had a son many years after they married. They had a happy family and the boy was the apple of their eyes. When the boy was four years old, an accident happened. One night the father was very tired after work, so he asked his wife to meet their son and take him home. The mother was very busy in the kitchen, and she forgot about it.
Later the boy lost his way in the street. When the mother found this, she went to look for him, but she couldn’t find him. Then she went to the police station to ask for help. She was very sad and didn’t know how to face her husband. After hearing the bad news, the father hurried to the police station. When he saw his wife, he didn’t blame(责备) her. Instead he said, “I love you, darling!”
“If I had picked him up or found this earlier, this would not have happened,” the father said to himself. He thought there was no point in blaming anyone. His wife also lost her only child. What he could give her was just understanding. Several weeks later, with the help of the police, they finally found their lost son. From then on, they became closer than before.
When something bad happens, people always spend lots of time blaming others instead of giving them support. Try to learn to forgive(原谅), and then you will find the world is much more wonderful.
【小题1】The father didn’t pick the boy up that day because he was________.
A. sick                         B. tired                              C. busy
【小题2】The mother asked ________ for help when she couldn’t find her son.
A. her husband       B. her neighbor          C. the police
【小题3】The underlined sentence “the boy was the apple of their eyes” means ________.
A. the boy was loved deeply by his parents             B. the boy liked eating apples
C. the boy’s face was round like an apple
【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE?
A. The mother was angry with her husband.
B. The father thought his wife should be blamed.
C. The boy was safe and sent home by the police at last.
【小题5】 The passage mainly tells us that we should _________.
A. forgive and understand others                B. blame each other
C. take good care of children

缺词填空  根据短文内容及首字母提示，补全空格内单词，使短文完整、通顺。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

Are you able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone anywhere in the world without putting a stamp on it? W  1.  e-mails you can do that. Using a c  2.   you can send e-mails quickly and easily. The post is much s  3.   than e-mail. E- mails can send the message to the other s  4.   of the world in seconds.

E-mail is easy to use and it s   5.  time and money. The differences in time in different parts of the world do not matter w 6.  to send e-mails. It is twenty-four-hour service that makes you send your e- mail at any time of the day or n 7. . No one has to stay t   8. to receive e-mails. It d 9.   matter if your friends are in bed when you send an e-mail to them, or you are seeing a f   10.   at the cinema when they send an e-mail back.   

Vision-phones(可视电话)

Radio，telephone and television are widely used in the world. When you switch on the radio, you can listen．But when you use a telephone，not only can you listen to others but also you can chat with them，however, you can’t see anything at all. Television is much better than both of them. People can watch TV and listen to it，but they can’t take part in what they see.

Today, some people are using a type of telephone called vision-phone. With it two people who are talking can see each other．

Vision-phones can be of great use when you have something to show the person whom you are calling，It may also have other uses in the future．Some day you may be able to call up a library and ask to read a book right over your vision-phone. You may be able to do some shopping through it, too. Perhaps in the near future, vision-phones will come into wide use in our everyday life.

1.According to the passage, we can guess that the_______ was invented last.

A．radio             B．vision-phone       C．telephone         D．television

2.Maybe the vision-phone can take the place of______ some day.

A．the telephone      B．the radio          C．the television      D．all the above

3.In the future, you can use a vision-phone to ________ 

A．ask an assistant to read a book for you

B．read a book

C．ask an assistant to bring you a book

D．ask an assistant to do some shopping for you