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Mozart
（莫扎特）was born on January 27, 1756 and died on December 5, 1791. When he was three, he often had lessons with his elder sister. His father took him through many different countries, and he played music for lots of people there. But some people didn't believe that a little boy could write such beautiful music. They asked him to stay in a room all by himself for a week and somebody watched the room all the time. In the week, he finished a new piece of music. After that, people believed that he could write beautiful music.Mozart died when he was still a young man. During his short life, he studied music and taught music and played music and wrote music. Even by working so hard, he could not make much money. Often he had to borrow money from his friends. But his music made him happy and for more than two hundred years his music has made other people happy, too.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
(1)When he was ______, Mozart took music lessons with his sister.
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A ．three |
B ．five |
C ．old enough |
D ．born |
(2)Some people wanted to know whether he could write beautiful music, so they asked him to stay in a room ______ for a week.
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A ．suddenly |
B ．alone |
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C ．with all the people |
D ．with his family |
(3)Mozart lived ______.
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A ．a long time |
B ．long time |
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C ．a long life |
D ．a short life |
(4)Although Mozart was famous, he was ______.
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A ．hard |
B ．rich |
C ．happy |
D ．poor |
(5)His music made ______ happy.
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A ．both him and other people |
B ．only him |
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C ．other people |
D ．nobody |
根据表中内容，选择正确答案。
(1)If you want to watch a football game, the best programme for you would be ______.
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A ．TV play |
B ．Sports |
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C ．Around the World |
D ．Talk Show |
(2)The programme of ______ may let you know much about Western countries.
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A ．Sisters |
B ．Around China |
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C ．Around the World |
D ．On TV Next Week |
(3)If you want to know something about tigers, elephants and monkeys, the best programme for you is ______.
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A ．Around China |
B ．Animal World |
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C ．TV play |
D ．Foreign Arts |
(4)English Classroom is a programme that ______.
A
．lets you know something about classroomsB
．tells you something about studentsC
．lets you know something about school lifeD
．teaches you English(5)The programme at the end of Channel 2 means ______ on TV next week.
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A ．news |
B ．programmes |
C ．people |
D ．places |
Matt Mason has seen the future--and it's fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system
（系统）that's built into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum（吸尘器）. Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop（用拖把擦） it up. “This may trouble you,” says Kara, an expert in Mason's company. “But you can program it to come on at 3 a m, and it will just wet-mop the floor for you.”When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax.
“More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly,” he says. “A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy（能量）lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm.”“The fridge will be the center of the home,” says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen（触摸屏幕）where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e-mail, keep a shopping list and order vegetables. “Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night,” says Lee.
Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters
（工作台）of the same height. “The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women,” says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. “But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want.” At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT's Counter lab has made the dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics.(1)How many inventions are mentioned in the passage?
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A ．Three. |
B ．Four. |
C ．Five. |
D ．Six |
(2)In future, if you want to clean your house, you will ________.
[
]A
．have a recycling system built in the wallB
．get up early to start your cleaning systemC
．use your fridge to give orders to a cleanerD
．leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine(3)What is future kitchen work like?
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A ．Terrific and relaxing. |
B ．Easy and interesting. |
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C ．Enjoyable and exciting. |
D ．Funny and amazing. |
(4)Why is our fridge the first place we go in the morning and the last place at night ion the future?
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]A
．We will eat something in the fridge from the morning to the evening.B
．We can surf the Internet and check our e-mails from it.C
．We can buy vegetables and watch TV from it.D
．We will have some fridges in our homes.(5)From the passage, we know ________.
[
]A
．people will have more and more time enjoying themselvesB
．future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every dayC
．the fridge can be found in the center of a future houseD
．people must be expert at computers to use these inventions创新阅读
Ways to Fall Asleep
为了尽快进入甜蜜的梦乡，历史上许多名人绞尽脑汁，有的人终于找到了自己独特的入眠方法，可有的人还是好梦难圆。你想探个究竟吗？
How much sleep do we need? The answers are different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.
Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia
（失眠症）.This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin
（本杰明·富兰克林）, the famous inventor, had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV（国王路易十四）of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he lay on his side（侧卧）across the end of the bed!根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
(1)Most Americans usually sleep for about _______ hours a night.
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A ．3 |
B ．5～6 |
C ．10 |
D ．7～8 |
(2)As people grow older, they need _______ at night.
[
]A
．less sleeping timeB
．more sleeping timeC
．the same amount of sleeping timeD
．a fixed time to sleep(3)If there are 100 million people in the US having a problem with sleep, what's the population of it? About ________.
[
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A ．200 million |
B ．300 million |
C ．600 million |
D ．900 million |
(4)Franklin tried to go to sleep by________.
[
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．moving from one to another of his 413 bedsB
．moving from one to another of his 4 bedsC
．inventing a bed for himselfD
．lying on his side across the end of the bed(5)It's not mentioned in the passage, but we _________ know that Mark Twain was _______.
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A ．a Frenchman |
B ．an Englishman |
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C ．an American |
D ．a German |
阅读理解
In today's world many people seem to be hungry for money. Some of them even lose their lives for it. Money does have its most useful effect
（影响）on the poor, but once a person has a rich life, a lot more money doesn't mean more happiness. If money was everything, all millionaires（百万富翁）would have true love, true friendship, good health and a long life. However, this is not always true. Nothing else is more pleasant than the three words which are“I love you”. But can love be bought? I afraid not. Love means to give, not to take. To every person, health and long life are probably the most precious （宝贵的）things. Well, can health and a long life be bought with money? The answer is “No”. Of all the longest living people in the world, few of them are millionaires. True friendship can't be bought either. In a word, where money is worshiped（崇拜）, money can cause brothers quarrel, lovers to hate, strangers to fight and so on. No matter how much money you have, it is still not enough to make you a happy person if you have no one to laugh with, no one to cry for.(1)According to the passage, which of the following do you think is right?
[
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．Money is everything.B
．Money isn't necessary.C
．Money is important, but not the most important.D
．With no money, with no success.(2)What's the most important thing for every person according to the writer's ideas?
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A ．Only money. |
B ．Health and a long life. |
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C ．Only friendship. |
D ．A, B and C. |
(3)Which sentence of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
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]A
．If you haven't much money, you can't get more happiness.B
．You may live a long life even if you are poor.C
．Every year many people die in the world because their family is poor.D
．If you are rich, you will have less friendship.(4)In fact, all millionaires ___________.
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A ．have much money |
B ．die earlier |
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C ．love their money |
D ．have true love |
(5)What does the sentence
“Love means to give, not to take.” mean in the passage?[
]A
．爱意味着给你，而不能带走。B
．爱是可以得到的，不要走开。C
．爱意味着奉献，而不是索取。D
．爱是可以索取的，而不必付出。Weddings in America
Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do. But many weddings, no matter where or how they are performed, include certain traditional customs. For instance, the bride and groom often exchange rings. The rings are usually worn on the fourth finger of the left hand. Today, the rings symbolize the couple's commitment to one another.
After the ceremony, the couple is often showered with handfuls of uncooked rice by friends and family. After the ceremony, there is often a party, where people may enjoy plentiful food.
And a wedding cake sits in a corner waiting to be cut. Soon thereafter, the bride stands in the center of the room, often on a chair, and throws her bouquet of flowers to the assembled unmarried women at the reception. It is said that whoever catches the flowers will be the next bride. Some women eagerly attempt to catch the bouquet, others shy away.
And then it is time for the bride and groom to set off. The tradition of a honeymoon, a trip after the wedding. The trip nowadays varies considerably dictated by wealth, time and preference. Sometimes the couple will spend a single night at a nearby hotel, sometimes they will spend two weeks at a remote vacation-spot.
(1)The bride and groom often exchange ________ at the wedding in the United States.
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A ．flowers |
B ．rings |
C ．jewels |
D ．necklaces |
(2)Today, the rings symbolize ________.
[
]A
．their love to one anotherB
．their healthC
．the happinessD
．their commitment to one another(3)After the ceremony, there is often a _________.
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A ．dinner |
B ．party |
C ．perforce |
D ．concert |
(4)The bride throws her bouquet of flowers to the assembled unmarried women at the reception. It is said that whoever catches the flowers will be ________.
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A ．a luck woman |
B ．the next groom |
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C ．the next bride |
D ．dignity（尊贵的）guest |
(5)The trip nowadays varies considerably dictated by _______.
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A ．wealth |
B ．time |
C ．preference |
D ．all above |