Andy was a little country boy. He lived in the house on the side of a hill. There was a railroad track below the house and Andy often watched the train as it passed by.

One day, as Andy was crossing the track, he saw that there was something wrong with it. One of the rails seemed to be out of its place. Just then he heard a noise. Dear, dear! The train was coming! It would soon be there! He must try to stop it in some way.

Andy did not think of any danger to himself, but he ran and stood in the middle of the track, not far from the place where the rail was broken, and then he held out his arms and waited.

On and on came the train. The engineer saw the boy on the track and whistled for him to get out of the way. But Andy stood still and did not move.

The engineer had to stop the train. He was very angry as he cried out to the boy and asked him why he stood on track.

But when Andy pointed to the broken rail ，the man understood everything. Andy saved the train and the lives of all the people on it.

1.When Andy was young, _____.

A. he often liked playing at the foot of the hill

B. he often ran on the track up and down

C. he often enjoyed listening to the click of rails

D. he often watched the train pass by

2.One day, as Andy went across the track, ____.

A. he thought there was something wrong with it

B. he saw the train was coming

C. he found one of the rails was broken

D. he heard a noise

3.When the train was coming,____.

A. Andy stood on the track to hold out his arms

B. Andy ran to the train to stop it

C. Andy ran out of the track quickly

D. Andy cried out to the engineer

4.As soon as the engineer saw the boy on the track,____.

A. he asked Andy why he stood there

B. he shouted at Andy

C. he whistled for Andy to leave the track

D. he asked Andy to get out of the way

5.When Andy pointed to the broken rail,____.

A. the engineer got off the train and repaired it

B. the engineer understood and got very angry

C. the engineer understood why the boy tried to stop the train

D. the engineer came out to see what was the matter

Bill Gates is one of the world’s richest men. ____1.______.This figure, however, depends upon the value at any time of his computer software company, Microsoft.

Gates established（建立） this company with Paul Allen in 1975 while he was still a student at Harvard University. ____2._____, and that every family would need software. Software is the name given to the programs we use on a computer. The computer itself---the keyboard, monitor and processor（处理器）---are called hardware.

Gates was born on October 28, 1955 and was already writing computer programs while still at school. _____3._____.Rick, which is about world domination（统治）, and that he wants Microsoft to dominate （支配）the computer software industry.

In 1994 Gates married Melinda French, an employee at Microsoft. _____4._____Although Melinda no longer works at Microsoft, she spends a lot of time doing charity work and is a member of the board at Duke University from where she graduated with a degree in business.

Apart from Microsoft, Gates is interested in very fast cars and in the charitable organization he has established---the William H. Gates Foundation---in memory of his grandfather. He has already given more than US $ 200 million to this charity, which distributes money to organizations interested in education and the development of new technology.

As president of Microsoft, Gates spends most of his time in meetings with the different teams working on the company’s many programs. _____5._____. Anybody who wants to contact Bill Gates can do so on the Internet at ask bill @ microsoft.com.

把A-E五个选项填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整，正确。

A. They have one child.

B .At that time he believed it would not be long before every home had a computer

C. He also sends out hundreds of e-mails a day

D. In the 8th grade, he wrote a simple mathematical program and a computer version（观点） of his favorite board game,

E. It is estimated（估计） that he earns about US $ 30 million a day.

Last Tuesday, a little girl died after eating some fried chicken. Her father bought the chicken for her from a street seller in Fenzhuang Village, Fengtai, Beijing. After testing the girl, the doctor said she was poisoned (中毒) by nitrites (亚硝酸盐). Some experts suggest that we should buy foods with QS signs. They are safer.

After hearing about the accident, many people feel more worried about the food safety because there have been many food safety problems in our country these years. For example, poisonous(有毒的) rice, oil, milk and so on have been found out recently. People feel quite afraid because these poisonous foods are rather bad for their health and even kill them. They want the government to do something to stop such poisonous foods and drinks appearing again so that they can have safe and healthy foods and drinks.

根据短文内容填空。

Information Card

词汇根据下列句子的意思及所给的汉语提示，写出空缺处单词的正确形式(每空一词)。

1.Lily’s parents are both doctors while _________（我的） are both teachers.

2.As Chinese , we’re all _________ (骄傲） of the Great Wall.

3.To make our world a better place, we need to _________ （保护） those endangered wild animals.

4.When did the story ______________ （发生）?

5.May is the______________ （第五）month of the year.

6.Most people in Britain have small___________ (花园) at the backs of their houses.

7.English is a working ___________ (语言) in the United Nations.

看图写句子：根据图示和提示词，写出恰当的句子，每图一句。（每题2分，共8分）

（要求：1. 使用全部的提示词；2. 写出完整的句式结构。）

1.

Jim, usually, school, bike

2.do some reading, at seven, last night

3.

cut down, by us, every year

4.Mike, ill, for two days

根据下面对话中的情景，在空白处填入适当的语句，使对话内容完整。

A: Hi, Linda. Glad to see you!

B: Glad to see you, too.

A: I didn’t see you yesterday.1.

B: Oh. I went to my friend’s birthday party.

A:2.

B: It was Rose’s.

A: Today is March 17th. Oh, I see. Her birthday is March 16th.

B: You’re right.

A:3.

B: We sang, danced and played games at the party.

A:4.?

B: Yes, we did. All of us were very happy.

A: Where did you have the party?

B: We had the party in a restaurant.

A: That’s wonderful. I will have my birthday party in a restaurant next time.

选择方框中所给词语的适当形式填空, 使短文正确，通顺，连贯。每词限用一次。(每空1分， 共10分)

There is nothing more1. than the sun. Without the sun, all2. things on the earth will3..

The sun is a star. In the sky there4. thousands of stars like the sun. They are as large as the sun and as hot as the sun. At night you can see many stars,5. in the daytime you can only see one star, the sun.

The sun is much nearer to us than any other star. This is6. it looks biggest and __7. of all the stars. The distance of the sun from the earth is as much as 1508.__ kilometers. Most of the stars are thousands of light years（光年）away from the earth.

Do you know the light year? Nothing in the world travels faster than light. It __9.__ at 300, 00010.a second. And one light year is the distance that light travels in one year.

下面是一份学生上网调查表，请结合表中内容，并根据自己的实际情况用第一人称写一篇短文，谈谈你使用互联网的情况及对使用互联网的看法。

要求：

1.文中不得出现真实校名和姓名；

2.短文应包含表中三个方面的内容（可作适当发挥），词数80左右。

_____ the one-child policy, now our country’s population isn’t growing so fast.

A. Thanks for B. Thanks to C. Because

They_________ all their money, so they have to walk home now.

A. spend B. will spend C. have spent