If someone is lost in a forest( 森林 ), he needs only study the trees around him carefully to find his way. On this half of the earth, he will find that the side of the tree with the most leaves and branches(树枝 ) is the south side. Also, by checking the tops of the trees, he will find that they lean(倾斜 ) to the south too.

  Another sign( 标志物) for him to know where he is going is found in the bark.( 树皮) That is brighter on the south side.The remanining(树桩 ) of a cut tree is also a finder, for its rings can give him another sign. The rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side.

  One more sign: some very small plants grow at the foot of a tree and they point to the north.

1. The passage is mainly about __________.

A. how to find a big tree if one is lost in the forest.

B. How to cut down trees in the forest

C. How to find the direction(方向 )in the forest

D. How to grow trees in the forest .

2. From a cut tree we can know that ___________.

     A. the direction is written on it

     B. the rings will be thinner on the south side and thicker on the north side

     C. the rings will be thinner on the south

     D. its rings can send messages to you

3. The passage tells us __________ ways of finding the direction in the frorest.

     A. three      B. four      C. five      D. six

C

It was at least tow months before Christmas, when nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her Barbi bike was just too old, and it needed repairing as well.

As Christmas came nearer, her dream for a bike seemed to disappear, so we thought, for she didn’t mention it again. We were busy buying some beautiful storybooks, a doll house, a holiday dress and toys. Then much to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more than anything else.

Now we didn’t know what to do. It was just toot late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing children’s presents, parents’ presents, a brother’s present and friends’ presents till midnight.So there was no time to take to buy the “right bike” for our little girl. Thinking that we were parents who would make their children unhappy, we felt guilty and sad.

Suddenly my husband came up with an idea. “What if I make a little bike out of clay(泥土) and write a note(便条) that she could trade in(交换) the model bike for a real one?” So he spent the next five hours carefully working with the clay to make a small bike.

On Christmas morning, we were so excited for Almie Rose to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. She opened and read the note loudly.

She looked at me and Ron and said, ”So does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real one?” Smiling, I said, “Yes.”

Almie Rose had tears in her eyes when she replied, “I would never trade in this beautiful bike that Daddy made me. I prefer to keep it rather than get a real bike.” At that moment, we would have moved the God to buy her every bike on the Earth.

1.Rose’s wish was to____ on Christmas Day.

A．get a new bike                         B．make a clay bike

C．receive a doll house                     D．repair her old Barbi bike

2.Rose’s parents didn’t buy her a bike because she____.

A．didn’t want a bike any more

B．changed her idea to some story books

C．didn’t mention it in the last tow months

D．asked for it only on December 24

3.The word “guilty” in the third paragraph(段落) means____.

A．unhappy          B．worried           C．happy            D．sorry

4.Rose’s father got a good idea to____.

A．spend five hours finishing making a small bike with clay

B．make a small bike red and white

C．make her old bike red and white

D．put the present in the box

5.From Rose’s words in the last passage , we know that she____

A．still wanted to get a real bike

B．didn’t know the meaning of the note

C．preferred a real bike to a model bike

D．was greatly moved by what her father had done

The earth moves round the sun, and the moon moves round the earth. When our part of the earth turns to the moon, it is night.

   The sun is much bigger than the moon. But sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because it’s much nearer to the earth.

   The sun is very bright. It gives a very strong light. The moon looks quite bright,  too. But it doesn’t give any light at all.

    The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon because they’re much farther away from us.

Read and choose the right answer

1.____moves round________.

   A. The earth; the moon   B. The moon; the earth

   C. The moon; the stars    D. The sun; the earth

2.Sometimes the moon looks bigger than the sun, because_________.

   A. it is much bigger than the sun

   B. it comes out only at night

   C. it is much nearer to the earth than the sun

   D. it doesn’t give a strong light

3.The sun_______________.

   A. is very bright, and it gives a very strong light

   B. isn’t bright, but it gives a very strong light

   C. is very big, but it doesn’t give any light at all

   D. is very round, but it can’t move round

4.The stars______________.

   A. look much bigger than the moon

   B. look much bigger than the sun

   C. are a lot brighter than the moon, but they are not bigger than the moon

   D. are much farther away from us than the moon

根据句意，用括号中所给词的适当形式填空。并将答案写在答题卷相应位置上。

1.He always makes me ________ when I am sad. (laugh)

2.Some        from the USA went to visit Yunnan History Museum. (tour)

3.The sea is big on the earth , but the sky is      than the sea.(big)

4.Maybe I can’t go swimming with you. I have a      . I have to see a dentist. (tooth)

5.The number of the students in our school      3000 this year. (be)