For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke， but for Harry Mendes， a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham， it was something quite different.

His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week， Harry's parents took him to hospital， but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack.

Harry， who is now back at school， described what happened to him.

“When I began to hiccup， I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either.”

After a week of sleepless nights， he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong.

“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down， but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”

Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne， who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last， but nobody knows why.

1.Harry's hiccups lasted ____.

A. a week B. fourteen days

C. twenty-eight days D. one month

2.His hiccups started after he ____.

A. drank a glass of water B. went to hospital

C. ate an Indian meal D. finished his homework

3.His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.

A. hiccupped for four seconds B. held his breath

C. hiccupped at night D. couldn't stop hiccupping

4.His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.

A. gave him some medicine B. took an X-ray of his chest

C. gave him a shock D. let him drink cold drinks

5.What does “shock” in this passage mean？

A.震惊 B. 休克 C. 喷嚏 D. 哈欠

单词拼写（共5小题，每小题1分；满分5分）

1.Millie and Amy heard a s noise from the bushes.

2.Have you ever h_________ of the interesting story?

3.Mrs Lee has much ______________(经验) of teaching English.

4.Listening to music is a way of (放松) yourself.

5.It’s hard to (想象) how they can improve English so quickly.

--This is _________ story I’ve told you about several times.

--It’s great .I’ve never heard _______ more exciting one.

A.the , a B.the ; the C.a; a D.at ; the

Can you imagine what food will be like in _________ time.

A.100 years’ B.100 years C.100-year’s D.100-years

Many Chinese students think science subjects are _____ foreign languages.

A．more difficult as B．much difficult than

C．1ess difficult than D．so difficult as

Do you sometimes try something new and expect to be successful for the first time? Are you angry with ____ if you aren’t?

Do you know a baby how to learn to walk? When a baby falls, the loving parent ____ him, “That’s OK. Try again.” Can you imagine if after many falls, the parent ____ the baby and says, “Well, I guess you’ll ____ be good at walking.” and doesn’t let the child continue to try?

Remember the first time you ____ your bike? I do. I didn’t lose my ____. I went back and tried again. Didn’t you?

“When I was a kid,” my dad told me, “you know, I ____ 4 UP(一种汽水饮料), but it wasn’t very good. I went back to the lab and ____ 5 UP and still, it wasn’t right. ___ I tried 6 UP, but it didn’t succeed. So I stopped. If I went on ____, may be 7 UP would be the hit!” Time after time, he said, he ____ too soon. He told me, “If I had tried one more, I could have been a rich man.”

Thomas Edison ____ over a thousand ____ before he found the filament(n.电灯泡的)灯丝 material that would make an electric light bulb shine.

____ we try something new, we need practice. No matter how well we plan, there are times unexpected problems developing.

Failure is ____ not an option(选择). It is a chance only for those who try.

1.A. you B. yourself C. yours D. your

2.A. obeys B. beats C. encourages D. hates

3.A. picks up B. dresses up C. cleans up D. looks up

4.A. nearly B. always C. never D. often

5.A. fell off B. fell down C. fell from D. fell over

6.A. confidence B. chance C. dream D. plan

7.A. produced B. invented C. thought D. wanted

8.A. started with B. came up with C. looked forward to D. was willing to

9.A. Finally B. First C. Luckily D. Second

10.A. try B. trying C. to try D. tried

11.A. gave out B. gave up C. gave away D. gave in

12.A. fail B. fell C. failed D. felt

13.A. times B. time C. money D. chance

14.A. Whenever B. Whatever C. However D. Whichever

15.A. truly B. really C. hardly D. easily

1.Who loves Microblog?

A. Alice. B. David. C. Lily. D. Leekom Wang.

2. What does Alice think about Wechat?

A. It’s fast and convenient.

B. It’s fashionable but slow.

C. It’s safe and useful.

D. It’s fun but expensive.

3.Why doesn’t Lily believe Wechat?

A. Because many people are cheated on Wechat easily.

B. Because she doesn’t like to say anything to her friends.

C. Because she doesn’t think it is a good way to make friends.

D. Because she prefers keeping diaries to showing secrets to others.

4.Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Wechat has hold-to-talk voice messaging function.

B. David can share his feelings instantly on Microblog.

C. Lily prefers reading to writing.

D. There is a word limit on Microblog.

5. From the passage we can learn David is ________.

A. a helpful boy B. an open-minded boy

C. a stupid boy D. a lazy boy

用所给单词的适当形式填空。

1.This magazine may be one of the _______________. You can go and ask him.(visit)

2.After reading the boring report，the engineer felt even__________ (sleep).

3.Men in their ________ are more likely to have their own companies instead of

working for others． (forty)

4.---Is it a good habit to spend your money _____________? ---Of course. (wise)

5.My classmates recommended lots of books to me ,but none of them is my __.(tastety)

-- Which of the two T-shirts would you like?

-- ________. I don't like their styles.

A. Either B. Both C. None D. Neither

--How can we protect ourselves the earthquake?

-- We should stay calm first.

A. with B. about C. for D. from