People sometimes say, “It’s raining cats and dogs!” when there is a heavy rain. Nobody has ever really seen cats and dogs falling from the sky, but there have been many reports of other strange things “raining” down. In 1956, the people of a town in the USA saw a small black cloud in the sky. It started to rain from the cloud normally, but only in a small area. The cloud then turned white, and fish started to fall to the ground. Most of them were still alive.

During a storm in July 1901 in Minneapolis, people heard something falling from the sky that did not sound like rain. When they went outside, they found all kinds of frogs covering four streets.

There are other reports of strange “rains” falling from the sky including worms (蠕虫), insects and snakes.

Can these strange “rains” be explained by science? Scientists usually say that a tornado(龙卷风)has picked up the animals from a river or ocean, carried them for miles, and then dropped them somewhere else. But this does not completely explain all of them. On May 15th, 1890, in Italy, there was a rain of blood — birds’ blood. Scientists said that flying birds must have been torn to pieces by strong winds. But if so, why did only their blood fall from the sky, and not other parts of their bodies? And anyway, there were no strong winds that day!

1.What does it mean when people say, “It’s raining cats and dogs”?

A. Cats and dogs are falling from the sky. B. It’s raining heavily.

C. Animals started to fall to the ground. D. There is a black cloud.

2.Which of the following has not been reported as strange things falling from the sky?

A. Cats and dogs. B. Worms and insects.

C. Fish and blood. D. Snakes and frogs.

3.What does the underlined word “torn” mean in Chinese?

A. 破裂 B. 撕破 C. 切碎 D. 割破

4.Scientists’ explanation for rain of blood is that ________.

A. the tornado picked up the birds’ blood

B. flying birds were torn into pieces by strong winds

C. there were no strong winds that day

D. other parts of birds’ bodies did not fall with the blood

5.Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Strange “Winds” B. Strange “Clouds” C. Strange “Rains” D. Strange “Animals”

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请用适当的词完成下面的短文。每个空只能写一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。

Today, an increasing number of people are always looking at their mobile phones with their heads down. These people are 1. the “Heads-down Tribe”. Heads-down tribe members now can be seen everywhere.

There are more and more traffic 2. because lots of drivers use mobile phones while driving. In order to make drivers pay more 3. to driving, some new traffic rules have been made.

As we can see above, using mobile phones may 4. traffic accidents. Also, more and more interesting and strange facts happen to the “Heads-down Tribe”. A man in America kept 5. his mobile phone on his way home. As 6. result, he knocked into a big lost bear. When he lifted 7. eyes from the phone, he was so afraid that he turned around and ran away as 8. as possible. Another fact is that we can often see people in the restaurant eating face to face but looking at their own mobile phones. It’s strange 9. they don’t talk to the ones who sit opposite to them during the meal. Some of them even have fun communicating with others on the phone.

Mobile phones are helpful and necessary tools for modern life. Whether they are good or not depends 10. how people use them. Let’s be “healthy” users and try to be the “Heads-up Tribe”.

请阅读下面这篇文章，根据所提供的信息，完成信息卡。

If you lose 12 times, will you just give up? Dale Carnegie, a pioneer in public speaking and self-development, kept trying. And he became famous by showing people how to be successful.

Carnegie was born in 1888 in the central United States. As a son of a farmer, the boy had to get up at 4 a.m. every day to milk the cows. When Carnegie first entered college, he felt hopeless because of his clothes and ordinary (普通的) looks. His mother encouraged him, “Why not try to be better in other things instead of just dress and good looks?”

Carnegie tried to be more active in college. He joined the debate (辩论) team. But one after another, he lost 12 times. The young man was so disappointed in himself that he even thought of ending his own life for so many failures.

But soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking on the riverside. His hard work brought good results at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech match and became widely famous.

The young man made his own words come true: “Believe that you will succeed, and you will.” In order to share his success, Carnegie started schools and wrote books. More than 50 million copies of his books have been printed in 38 languages. They are still helping people on the road to success.

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你或你身边的同学是否也和Carnegie有着相似的经历呢？假设你校将举行一场主题为“失败乃成功之母”的英语演讲比赛，请你写一篇演讲稿，谈谈你的看法。

内容包括：

1. 描述你或同学的一次类似的经历；

2. 谈谈你或同学在这次经历中的收获（至少两点）。

作文要求：

1. 不能照抄原文；不得在作文中出现学校真实的名称和学生的真实姓名。

2. 语句连贯，词数80个左右。开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Good morning, everyone! I think everyone will agree with the saying that “Failure is the mother of success.” ___________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Don’t be afraid of failures. If you learn how to deal with failures, you will surely taste success in the end.

TFBOYS' songs ____ sweet and many of us like listening to them.

A. sound B. feel C. taste D. look

The skirt ______ soft as if it is made of silk.

A. sounds B. tastes

C. feels D. smells

This kind of skirt looks ___ and sells _____.

A. nice well B. nice; good

C. well; well D. good nice

This type of MP4 is my favorite, but I can’t ______ it.

A. spend B. cost C. pay D. afford

--What does he look like?

--He is ．

A. very tall B. interesting C. very nice D. very well