What a beautiful day!

  The sun is shining and everything looks bright. Stand in tile sun. Can you feel the heat of the sun? The sun that gives the heat is very far away. It is hard to believe, but the sun is about one hundred and fifty million kilometers away. If a plane flew day and night without stopping, it would take nearly 18 years to get to the sun.

  The sun doesn't seem very big to us, but it's really very huge. One million balls as big as our earth could fit inside the sun. The sun looks small because it is so far away. If the sun were much nearer, our earth would be too hot to live on. If there were no sun, the earth would be so cold that nothing could live on it. Aren't we lucky to be just about the right distance away from the sun?

  The earth circles tile sun. It takes one year for the earth to go completely around. The earth spins around once every 24 hours. In the morning the sun seems to rise in the east. As the day goes on, the sun seems to travel across the sky. In the evening the sun seems to set in the west and then it is night. Almost every part of the earth turns from day to night during every 24 hours.

  The sun gives us light. It keeps us warm. It makes things grow. Plants, animals and people need the sun. The sun makes our earth beautiful. We could not live with out the sun.

(1) It's a beautiful day because ________.

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A.everything looks bright

B.you stand in the sun

C.the sun is shining

(2) The sun is far away so ________.

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A.it gives us the heat

B.it looks small though it is really very big

C.it is warm in the sun

(3) Our earth is cool enough for us to live on because ________.

[  ]

A.the sun is much nearer

B.there is no sun light

C.the earth is just about the right distance away from the sun

(4) We have days and nights because ________.

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A.the earth circles the sun and it also spins at the same time

B.the sun travels across the sky

C.the sun rises in the east and sets in the west

(5) It takes the earth ________ to go around the sun.

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A.one year

B.twenty-four hours

C.a day and a nigh

  A bit of rain and wind in summer can be nice. But bad storms are a bit different.

  Some of the worst storms are typhoons(台风). Every year,about 80 typhoons hit different places around the world, The strongest ones are usually around the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. Most happed in July, August and September.

  Why? When lots of seawater gets hot in the sun,it evaporates(蒸发)into the air. This makes the air hotter, too. When the air gets warm enough, it starts to move higher up into the sky. Then, cooler air around it rushes in to fill the space that is left. Once the air gets warmer, it starts to move more quickly, making wind. The wind goes in circles, and it keeps moving higher in the sky. The warmer the air gets, the more quickly the wind moves. And when the wind moves faster than 30 meters a second, a typhoons begins.

  A typhoon has two parts. One is called the“eye”. This is right in the middle of a trphoon and is calm. The eye of a typhoon can be about 40 kilometers wide. In the eye, the wind does not move so fast, and there are not many clouds in the sky. The other part of a typhoon is the wall of clouds around the eye. This is where the strongest winds and hardest rains are.

  Typhoons are very dangerous. They blow away houses and cars. And they can also kill people! Typhoons' hard rains are bad for farmers' fields.

(1) How many typhoons hit different places around the world every year?

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A.80

B.40

C.30

(2) Where usually has the strongest typhoons all over the world?

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A.Pacific Ocean

B.South China Sea

C.both A and B

(3) What will happen to the seawater when it gets hot in summer?

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A.it will disappear

B.it will evaporate

C.not mentioned in the passage

(4) What is the other part of the typhoon?

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A.the wall of wind around the eye

B.the wall of clouds around the eye

C.the wall of air around the eye

(5) When do typhoons often happen around the year?

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A.September, October and November

B.July, August and September

C.June, July and August

  When people become good at doing the things they like to do, they have found themselves.

  Many young people are good at doing things they don't like, many other young people would like to do something that they are not good at. Also many do not think they are good at anything and don't know what they would like to do. None of them are happy.

  It is impossible to decide whether one likes something until one has tried it. Trying something new is important.

  Give each idea a fair chance. If you have decided to try out something new, also decide how long you will stick to it, so you can make a fair decision.

  The best thing to judge is not the anal goal but the work it takes you to reach the goal Almost everybody would like to be highly skilled in something. But becoming highly skilled at anything calls for a great deal of time and work.

  Finding oneself means not only discovering what one is good at and what one likes, it also means discovering what one is not good at and what one doesn't like.

  So trying something and failing can have its good side. It tells you that you are not fit for that particular area and should not use it as you goal.

(1) None of the young people are happy because ________.

[  ]

A.they are good at doing things they are not fond of

B.they would like to do something they are not good at

C.A and B

(2) You can't decide if you like something ________.

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A.even if you have tried it

B.though you have tried it

C.before you try it

(3) To become good at something needs ________.

[  ]

A.time and money

B.a lot of time and work

C.a lot of work and rest

(4) From this passage we know that to find oneself is ________.

[  ]

A.important

B.natural

C.useless

(5) To find oneself, one has to know ________.

[  ]

A.his strong points

B.his weak points

C.both his strong points and weak points

  Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant(仆人). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.

  One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant,“There are two bottles of poison(毒药)and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.”With these words, he went out.

  But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished(惩罚), so he drank the poison to kill himself.

(1) In the story, ________ liked wine and good food very much.

[  ]

A.the rich man

B.the servant

C.both A and B

(2) The servant said it was ________ that ate up all the nice food.

[  ]

A.the cat

B.no body

C.the servant

(3) The rich man told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because ________.

[  ]

A.there was in fact poison in the bottles

B.he did not want the servant to drink his wine

C.he wanted to kill the servant

(4) In fact, ________ ate all the nice food and drank the wine.

[  ]

A.the servant

B.the rich man

C.nobody

(5) From the story, we know that the servant is very ________.

[  ]

A.lazy

B.bad

C.clever

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