14.(　 ) Which of the following about the new “star" is NOT TRUE?

A. It will help us know more about the moon.

B. It will go around the earth for one year.

C. It will cost 1. 4 billion yuan.

D. It will be sent up by the year 2006.

13.(　 ) Which of the following about News 2 is TRUE?

A. There are many mistakes in most of the textbooks，dictionaries and children’s books.

B. All the students have to use the books full of mistakes till the end of June.

C. After the checking books will become better and better.

D. A few mistakes are not serious for children.

12.(　 ) If the X-43A goes around the earth，it will take about _____ hours to finish the trip.

A. 3　　　　　　 B. 5　　　　　 C. 8　　　 D. 12

11.(　 ) News 1 talks about ______.

A. people can’t go around the earth in a few hours

B. the American X-43A airplane travelled around the earth in a few hours

C. the American X-43A airplane is the fastest one in the world

D. only Americans can make such a fast plane

10.(　 ) Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Vision-phone is more advanced than radio-telephone or television．

B. People will use vision-phone in the future more than now.

C. Vision-phone will be helpful in people’s life．

D.It is impossible to do shopping through vision-phone．

　　　 　　　　　　　C

News 1

Have you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours though it is about 40,000 kilometers? One day，maybe you can. Last Saturday，the American X- 43A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8，000 kilometres an hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the world. The X-43A is only three to four metres long，but it’s very heavy：it weighs(重)1,270 kilogrammes.

News 2

Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? Don’t worry，things will get better soon. Last week，China started checking textbooks，dictionaries and children’s books all over the country. The government(政府)said the results of the checking would come out at the end of June.

News 3

There will be a new“star”in the sky soon. China plans to send a satellite into space by December 2007. It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very expensive，right? That's for sure一1. 4 billion yuan！

News 4

Floods(洪水)across the northern Mexican state of Coahuila killed at least 32 people and left100 more missing. It was reported on Monday. The heavy rain hit the state all night last Friday，so some banks of the river were broken. Along the river about 3，000 families were seriously affected(受影响)．

9.(　 ) In the future, you can use a vision-phone to ________　

A. read a book

B. ask an assistant to read a book for you

C. ask an assistant to bring you a book

D. ask an assistant to do some shopping for you

8．(　 )Through a vision-phone we can _______

A. take medicine　 B. order what we need　

C. travel around the world　 D．try on clothes

7.(　 ) Maybe the vision-phone can take the place of______ some day.

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

6.(　 ) According to the passage, we can guess that the______ was invented last.

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

5.(　 ) Which is right according to the story?

　　　 A. Great people read lots of books and asked many questions while they read.

　　　 B. Great people could learn everything from school.

　　　 C. People need to know only some formulas to do math exercises.

D. The teachers cannot teach their students how to read and how to think.

B

　　 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 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-phone will come into wide use in our everyday life.