1、This Weekend!

       Saturday, May 24

Star Wars II bus leaves N flagpole at 5:45 pm. Return leaves immediately following the movie. Cost $ 15. Sign up on SWIS by noon on Thursday.

BLOCK PARTY! Bands , volleyball. Starts at 6:00 pm.

Grandin Cinema Presents: Hearts in Atlantis. Asingle mother and her son change when a nice -looking stranger enters their life. Grandin, 7:00 pm.

NMH Theatre presents a modern play by Don Nigro. Silverthome Theatre, 7:30 pm. Tickets are $2  for NMH students, teachers and staff and $4 for all others. Anyone wishing to book tickets should SWIS Jake Kavanagh.

       Sunday, May 25

Trip to Six Flags Amusement Park! Bus leaves N flagpole at noon, MH Holbrook 12:15 pm.

       Return leaves park at 21:00 pm. This trip includes the following two films and is only for those students not attending the Chat .Cost $ 33 . Sign up on SWIS or at the ticket office by noon on Thursday.

★Dolben Cinema Presents: Heroes and Heroines . Jennifer Lopez in Anaconda A “National Geographic” film crew is taken hostage by a hunter with a gun , who takes them along in his search for the world’s largest and deadliest snake. Dolben ,8:00 pm.

★Grandin Cinema Presents: The Others. A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two children becomes sure that there are ghosts in their house. Grandin, 8:00 pm.

1．According to the passage, NMH is a      .

       A．company             B．theatre                 C．school                 D．travel office

2．How many movies will be on this weekend?

       A．One.                   B．Two.                   C．Three.                 D．Four.

3．What can we learn from the passage?

       A．All the weekend activities were organized by Jake Kavanagh.

       B．Two of the movies mentioned in the ads are about social problems.

       C．Those who go to the amusement park will stay there for more than 10 hours.

       D．An NMH student inviting his parents to watch the play together should pay $ 10.

22、 

Question: What is more astonishing than a 60-ton whale on a flatbed truck being driven down the street?

       Answer: A 60-ton whale on a flatbed truck exploding and raining blubber ( fat of whales ) all over the sidewalk

       That’s what happened in Taiwan recently , when a dead sperm whale being shipped to the Halobios Research Centre for an autopsy (尸体解剖) developed an extremely bad case of gas  and blew up before it reached its destination .

       The whale was found alive on a Taiwan beach last weekend, and died shortly after it was discovered. Since the 56-foot whale was the largest whale ever beached on Taiwan’s shores, scientists wanted to study it and perform an autopsy for educational purpose.

       Obviously, too much time passed between when the animal died and the time it was set to be moved to the autopsy location, because it had already started to go bad. When things rot, they give off gasses as a by-product. In the whale’s case, the gases were trapped in its belly. The pressure inside the rotting creature grew so much that it popped like an over-filled balloon. Unfortunately , it was on a truck in the middle of the city of Taiwan at the time — cars and shops lining the street were covered with whale bits and juices , much to their owners’ discouragement .

       According to news reports, traffic was tied up for hours while officials tried to clean up the streets.

       Newspaper editors worldwide were probably smiling to themselves , since they had a ready-made headline —several reports about the incident were titled “ There She Blows ! ” after the famous line from the book Moby Dick

1．The purpose of the question at the beginning of this news report is to __________.

       A．explain the reason                                       B．sell newspapers

C．attract readers                                            D．give an immediate answer

2．The whale’s explosion is the result of _________.

       A．pressure from gases building up in the creature as it began to rot

B．the long transport of the creature from the beach to the center

C．the extremely busy traffic in the streets it passed by

D．the quick process of rotting of the animal

3．What is the correct order of the incidents?

       a．The whale was se o a flatbed truck               b．The whale was discovered

c．The whale exploded                                     d．The whale died

A．b ; c ; a ; d              B．d ; c ; b ; a             

C．b ; d ; a ; c             D．d ; b ; a ; c

4．What do we know from the last paragraph?

       A．Some newspaper editors were laughed at

B．Moby Dick is he name of a woman writer

C．All the newspapers reported the story under the same title

D．The title “ There She Blows ! ” is taken from the book Moby Dick .

20、I prefer a flat in the suburb to ___ in downtown , because I want to live near my Mom’s .

A．one                        B．that                        C．it                            D．this

19、Why ______ you always be finding fault with the person who is really nice ?

A．do                         B．can                         C．should                    D．must

18、— Why didn’t you buy the video camera you had longed for ?

— I ________ , but I was ＄100 short.

A．planned to                                                  B．had planned to       

C．would plan to                                             D．have planned to

17、The driver got out of the car _____ it caught fire.

A．immediately            B．that                 C．unless              D．until

16、—How did your final examination go ?

—I couldn’t feel _____ about it ! This time parents got much proud of my studies.

A．worse             B．best                 C．better                     D．worst

15、It’s a family of five _________ are addicted to the Internet .

A．all of them              B．all of whom             C．which              D．those