The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. But it can be very terrible when there is a strong wind. The sea is very big. It covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. In one place, the sea is about 11 kilometres deep. The highest mountain(山) in the world is about nine kilornetres high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place, there would still be two kilometres of water above it!
In most parts of the sea,there are plenty of fishes and plants (植物). Some live near the top of the sea.Others live deep down. There are also a lot of small living things,and lots of fish live by eating them. The sea can be very cold. When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men can go down into the deep sea. But,in 1970,five women scientists lived in the deep sea for fourteen days.

1. 1.

   This writing is ________.

   1. A.
      a short story
   2. B.
      about the sea
   3. C.
      a news report
   4. D.
      a poem
2. 2.

   Which of the following is NOT true?

   1. A.
      The sea is usually very beautiful when it is sunny.
   2. B.
      The sea is very terrible when the wind blows hard.
   3. C.
      The highest mountain is in the deepest place of the sea.
   4. D.
      The deeper the people go into the sea, the colder they would feel there.
3. 3.

   The sea covers _________of the earth.

   1. A.
      1/3
   2. B.
      2/3
   3. C.
      1/4
   4. D.
      3/4
4. 4.

   There are a lot of small living things in the sea,and_______.

   1. A.
      they live by eating fish
   2. B.
      they live to eat apples
   3. C.
      they are good food for fish
   4. D.
      they are too small for fish to catch
5. 5.

   In 1970,five women lived in the deep sea for 14 days. That showed_______.

   1. A.
      not only men can go down into the deep sea
   2. B.
      women wanted to swim in the sea
   3. C.
      women could go deeper into the sea than men
   4. D.
      women liked living in the sea

Hello! I’m an English girl. My first name is Lucy. My last name is White. I’m in No.3 Middle School. My father and mother are in No.3 Middle School, too. They are English teachers. My brother is in NanKai University(大学). His name is Tony. I have a Chinese teacher. Her name is Wang Yan. She can speak (说)very good English. She is a good teacher.

阅读短文，从四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

41. I am an English __________.

A. boy                      B. teacher                  C. girl                  D. student

42. My name is __________.

 A. White Lucy        B. Lucy White           C. Wang Yan            D. Tony White

43 Tony is __________.

 A. my father            B. my mother            C. my Chinese teacher    D. my brother

44. There are(有)__________ people in my family.

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

45. Wang Yan is __________ .

A. a Chinese teacher                           B. my aunt  

C. an English teacher                         D. a student

The English often go out with an umbrella or a raincoat. Why？ 36  the weather In Britain often changes quickly.
Spring can be rainy or windy, but the weather is  37  warmer and you can hope more sunny days. In fact , there  38  as much sunshine in spring as in summer. Summer is the  39  time for visitors to go to the seaside. People often go out to have a walk or swim. Autumn is a beautiful season. During autumn it is still nice to be outside ,too. In winter, it gets colder, and it might 40  ,especially in the north. There are  41  very heavy winds in this season.
February is usually the coldest   42 of the year , while the warmest  43 often July.
The difference   44   temperature between winter and summer is not so great in Britain. The average temperature for winter is about 4.5℃,and for   45 is about 15.5℃.
【小题1】A. Because     B. As           C. Since
【小题2】A. get         B. getting       C. gets
【小题3】A. can have     B. can         C. can be
【小题4】A. worst        B. best         C. earliest
【小题5】A. snow        B. rain         C. wind
【小题6】A. also         B. either        C. too
【小题7】A. month       B. season       C. weather 
【小题8】A. is          B. was         C. are
【小题9】A. in           B. on         C. for
【小题10】A. spring      B. autumn       C. summer

My friend Tony is an American   41  . He is ten years old. He lives 42  his family in China now. There are   43   people in his family; his mother Mrs. Green, his father Mr. Green and his little sister Amy. He has a white cat.   44  name is Betty. Look！Amy is playing   45  Betty. His father, Mr. Green, is watc­hing TV. His mother is doing housework. What about Tony? He is doing   46   Chinese homework. He can't   47 Chinese well, but he likes Chinese very much. Tony's          48   works in a TV station. His father works in a school as an   49  teacher. Tony and his sister   50   to the same school.

Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very   36  life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would   37  my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never   38  again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I didn’t want to be bad enough. She   39  that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school-walking on my own!
When the Great Depression（大萧条）  40 , my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support（支撑） both of us. At that moment, I decided never to be   41  again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real   42  point happened on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1916. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels for families and was angry that they charged（收费）an extra $2 for each child. That was too   43  for most American families. I told my wife that I was going to open a hotel for families that would never charge extra for   44 . There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not   45 , mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of hard time. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my heart, I   46  doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world­ - Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situations. But if you can find a   47  in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.