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12．Mr．King worked in a factory．He liked playing soccer and spent much time on it，so he was sometimes late for work．His boss was so angry that he fired Mr．King．Mr．King couldn't find another job．Finally he got into trouble and lived a difficult life．
One of his friends felt sorry for him and introduced him to a headmaster，whose school was just in need of a swimming coach （教练）．Mr．King began to teach the school children to swim．He wasn't a good coach．Two months later，the children learned nothing．Few of them could swim．
It was a hot Saturday．The children wouldn't stay in the classroom and wanted to swim in the river．Mr．King failed to stop them．Before they started，he drew a red line below the knee of each child．He said to them，"Come out of the river at once if the water reaches the line．"

56．Why did the boss fire Mr．King？D
A．Because Mr．King didn't like his job．
B．Because Mr．King was ill
C．Because Mr．King talked too much
D．Because Mr．King was sometimes late for work．
57．Mr．King couldn't find another job and his life wasB．
A．happy      B．hard      C．relaxing     D．free
58．Who helped Mr．King find a job in a school？B
A．The boss of the factory
B．His friend
C．The school children
D．Nobody
59．Two months later，the children learned nothing becauseD．
A．Mr．King taught them to play soccer
B．they didn't like swimming at all
C．they were afraid of water
D．Mr．King was not a good coach．
60．Mr．KingA，so he drew a red line below the knee of each child．
A．didn't want the children to swim．
B．wanted to make the children look funny．
C．wanted to make the children happy
D．wanted to help the children swim better．

11．仔细阅读下面的短文并按要求完成后面的小题．
Men have always wondered about the earth they live on and about the ①sky above them．
When early men looked at the night sky，they asked themselves a lot of questions．They looked at the moon，and wondered what this strange bright object in the sky was．They did not understand why it changed its shape from night to night．They looked at the stars and planets．They also wondered why some of them changed their positions，while others did not．
②他们也思考地球的形状． Most early people believed the earth was flat．
③In different parts of the world，there were different ideas about the universe．The ancient Greeks were the first people to study the universe more scientifically．In the sixth century BC Pythagoras put forward the idea that the world was round．However，he could not explain why people at the bottom of the world did not fall off．
It was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that scientists found the answers to some important questions．④With the help of Galileo's telescope，people could see the sky more clearly，and find the positions of the stars and planets．Finally in 1665，Isaac Newton explained to the world what gravity （重力） was and people at last understood why they did not fall off the earth．

76．在文中①处填写一个单词，使得句意完整、上下文通顺．sky
77．根据文章内容回答问题．
What questions did early men ask themselves when they looked at the night sky？Write down one of them．They asked what this strange bright object in the sky was
78．将文中②句翻译成英语．They also thought about the shape of the earth
79．将文中③句翻译成汉语．世界的不同地方存在着对宇宙的不同想法
80．写出文中④句的同义句，每空限填一词．
Galileo's telescope madeit possible for people to see the sky more clearly，and to find the positions of the stars and planets．

10．In the UK，a woman usually doesn't like to be asked _________．（　　）

	A．	whether she had been married		B．	what is her age
	C．	how much she weighs		D．	where she comes from

9．-Middle school students don't know much about shopping online，_________they？
-_________．It's very popular with teenagers．（　　）

8．Allen wanted to know ____ after it got out of the UFO．（　　）

	A．	what is the alien doing		B．	what the alien would do
	C．	where would the alien go		D．	where the alien is going

7．He didn't go there yesterday，_________he？（　　）

6．He answered few questionsincorrectly （correct），so he got a high grade in the final exam．

5．The background music soundsnoisy （noise）．Please turn it down．

4．He was not brave enough to tell his mother theloss （lose） of his mobile phone．

3．When I was a small child，my mother often readme （I） some stories before I went to sleep．

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