Tessa little girlentered Rexall's Drug Store with one dollar and eleven centsShe waited patiently for the pharmacist药剂师to give her some attentionBut he was too busy at that moment

“And what do you want?” the pharmacist asked while he was ___1___ his brother from Chicago

“WellI want to talk to you about my ___2___Andrew” Tess answered“He's reallyreally sick...and I want to buy a miracle奇迹

“I beg your pardon?” said the pharmacist

“He has ___3___ growing inside his headand my Daddy says only a miracle can save him nowSo ___4___ does a miracle cost?’’

“We don’t sell miracles herelittle girlSo I ___5___ help you” the pharmacist saidsoftening a little

“What kind of miracle does your brother ___6___?” asked the pharmacist’s brothera well dressed man

“I don’t knowI just know he's really sickand Mommy says he needs an ___7___But my Daddy can't pay for itSo I want to use ___8___ money

“How much do you have?” asked the man

“Only one dollar and eleven cents

“What a coincidence巧合!” smiled the man“That's just the ___9___ of a miracle for the little boy

It wasn't long ___10___ Andrew was home again and doing wellThat man was a surgeon外科医生He performed a successful operation on the little boy for free and he did give the family a real miracle

1Acalling               Btalking to            Cwriting to          Dwaiting for

2Afather                Bmother            Cbrother            Dsister

3Asomething good       Bsomething bad      Canything good      Dnothing bad

4Ahow much           Bhow often        Chow many          Dhow soon

5Adon't                Bcan               Ccan't              Dshouldn't

6Alike                 Buse               Chave              Dneed

7Aorange                Bapple              Coperation            Daward

8Ayour                Bmy               Ctheir                       Dhis

9Aprice                Bform              Ctype              Dway

10Aafter              Bsince            Cuntil              Dbefore

Teenagers were enjoying exercise with their jumping shoes at the People's Square of Guiyangon Dec82008The jumping shoes became popular among teenagers after they were used in the performance

of the Beijing Olympic closing ceremony

An eatable Christmas cardwhich is made from potato starch(淀粉)paper and printed with food coloring instead of inkhas been designed by a British company to try to be as “green” as possibleThe cards came out quite well last Christmas DayThey're not very tasty but the company will do flavored ones this year

Li Tongzhua 64-year-old retired(退休的)manfinished his paper-cut work

of “Riverside Scenes at the Qingming Festival” in Zaozhuang CityShandong Province in December2008Li had spent 7 months finishing the 3.10-metre-long paper-cut work

Alison Spoonera 27-year-old write womanand her husband Dean' Duranta 33-year-old black manare a mixed-race British coupleThey had their second black and white twins in November2008Their first black and white twins were born in 2001

1The jumping shoes became popular among ________

Aretired people                             Bteenagers

CBritish people                           Dmixed-race couples

2“Riverside Scenes at the Qingming Festival” by Li Tongzhu is a ________

Abook               Bphoto              Cpaper-cut work     Dcard

3The eatable card shows that there are many ways to make a difference to ________

Alifestyles           Bfestivals           Cthe environment   Dmeals

4How many black and white twins does the mixed-race couple have?

AOne             BTwo                    CThree           DFour

5Li Tongzhu began his paper cut work of “Riverside Scenes at the Qingming Festival” ________

Ain December2008                      Bin July2008

Cin November2008                     Din May2008

In choosing Steven Chu as his energy secretary能源部长Barack Obama has chosen one of the most prominent USscientists of using science to deal with global warming全球变暖

Steven Chu was born in StLouisMissouriin 1948His father was a college teacherAt that timethey were only the third Chinese family to live thereIn high schoolChu played tennis and was on the school clubHe took his first physics class in his senior year at Garden City High School and became interested in it

Steven Chu got his first doctor's degree in maths and physics in 1970Then he went to California for another doctor's degreeIn 1978Chu worked in Bell Lab where he developed ways to C001 and trap atoms using a laser用激光冷却和俘获原子In 1997he got the Nobel Prize for physics for thisHe left Stanford in 2004after he was made head of the Lawrence Berkley National Lab in CaliforniaAs the head of the national labChu has tried to find scientific ways to climate change and soon Become a member of the Climate Council working for a new global climate treaty气候条约for 2009

He also insists on the need to end the unnecessary waste of energy“If I were King of the worldI would spend the next ten years on energy efficiency and conservation节能和环保” He said last year

On December 11th2008Barack Obama made him energy secretaryHe would be the first Chinese-American to run the Department of Energy and devote himself to sustainable可持续发展的energy

1Who is Steven Chu?

AHe is a Nobel Prize winner for energy        BHe is a visiting scientist in America

CHe is an American-Chinese                       DHe is a Chinese-American

2The underlined word “prominent” in the first paragraph means _________

A.参与竞选的         B.遵守承诺的         C.才能卓越的         D.出身显赫的

3Which is the right order of the following events about Steven Chu?

aHe was chosen by Barack Obama as US energy secretary

bHe got the Nobel Prize for his excellent research work

cHe studied in California for his second doctor’s degree

dHe became a member of the Climate Council

eHe acted as the head of the national lab in California

Abcdea                                         Bcbeda

Cdabce                                   Dacbde

4In the next part of this passagethe writer would most probably tell us the following EXCEPT _________

AObama's reason of choosing Chu as the energy secretary

BChu's plan and work on energy efficiency and conservation

CObama's new plan to Chinese-Americans

Dboth Obama and Chu's plans and ideas on sustainable energy

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