1. Steven Jobs seemed ________ when he was young.

A..to be one of the best students at school    
B. not to be a good student at school
C. to be liked by all his teachers  
D. to leave the school

2. Why did Steven Jobs go to India?

A. Because he was interested in India.  
B. Because he was given a job as a designer there.
C. Because he hoped to get some new ideas from the trip.  
D. Because he wanted to study there.

3. Steven Jobs designed his new computer ________.

A. in India        
B. with his friend
C. in an apple tree garden    
D. by himself

4. Steven Jobs was famous for his ________ all over the world.

A. new ideas                
B. apple trees  
C. Apple Computer            
D. video games

5. From this passage we can learn that ________.

A. Steven Jobs got on well with his schoolmates  
B. Steven Jobs was full of new ideas, but only one of them was valuable.
C. Steven Jobs could only design video games
D. Steven Jobs liked trying new things and making his new ideas become true

    My name is Toby. I'm eighty-three years old now. I once knew the greatest man in England. William
Shakespeare was his name. I first met William near a big field of apple trees in the town named Stratford
in October, 1579. He told me he was 15 years old. He was two years older than me. He had a sister,
Joan, and two younger brothers, Gilbert and Richard. And the next year he had another brother, Edmund. After William's parents died, he and his sister lived with his mother's brother. I became his friend from that day until he died. We met nearly every day. We were friends for thirty years.
    I once worked with him in the theatre, through the good times and the bad times. William was good at
acting. He could make all kinds of people pleased. By 1592, he became very famous. He was always busy day and night. I don't know when he slept. He not only acted in plays, but also wrote his own plays. In his whole life, William wrote 37 plays in all. He was the best playwright in England.
    He wrote a play about love in 1595. It was Romeo and Juliet. He once used my name, Toby, in his
play-Twelfth Night. In this play, Sir Toby Belch was a big fat man, who liked drinking too much and
having a good time. Queen Elizabeth the First watched this play on the 6th of January, 1601. She liked
it.
    William Shakespeare is dead now, of course. He has been dead for more than thirty years. There's no
singing, no dancing, no plays. It isn't like that in my young days. But I can still think-and remember when
William and I were young, we had a good time in London, William and I…

1. Toby and William first met in ______. 

A. 1601
B. 1595
C.1592
D. 1579

2. Who was William's youngest brother?

A. Gilbert
B. Edmund
C. Richard
D. Joan

3. In the second paragraph, the underlined word "playwright" means "a person who ______".

A. writes plays
B. performs in plays
C. watches plays
D. works in a theatr.

4. Romeo and Juliet is a play about _______.

A. war
B. peace
C. love
D. friendship

       I have a friend. His name is Jack. ③He is healthy because(因为) he plays sports. He runs every day. He runs to his ___①____ in the morning and he runs ____②____ after school in the afternoon. He can run fast. He likes playing soccer, volleyball, tennis, basketball , ping-pong and more. He has three soccer balls, two volleyballs, six tennis rackets, four basketballs and many ping-pong balls. They are in his room. He plays sports with his friends every day. He likes many sports stars and he often watches them on TV. All my classmates say Jack is sporty (爱好体育)。

1.根据短文内容在①②处各填一词。
    ___________   ______________

2.划线单词them指___________ ___________

3.根据短文内容回答问题。Where are Jack's volleyballs?

   __________________________________________________________________

4.把③译成汉语。

   __________________________________________________________________

5..在文中找出文章的标题。  

  __________________________________________________________________

    During his life Dr James Naismith worked as a doc-tor, taught P.E. and wrote several books. While he never thought it very important, Dr Naismith is today best known for one thing. He was the inventor of basketball.    
    Dr James Naismith was born in Canada in 1861 and his first job was at a special sports school in the USA.One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the .students. Because of heavy snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport the boys could play indoors and gave the teacher two weeks to think of something.      
    It was on the very last day that James came up with  his idea. The" birth of basketball "is said to be on Decem- ber 21,1891,when two teams from the school played the first game. It was quite different from the basketball games of today. It had 9 players on each team and foot- balls were used instead of basketballs. Soon after, the game changed t0 5 players on each side, using special  " basketballs" through nets.     
   Although Dr Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game it is today, in 1936,just three years before his death, basketball became an Olym- pic sport. at the games in Berlin.  

1. Dr Naismith is ________ ________as the inventor of bas-ketball.
2. December 21,1891 was said co be the ________of bas-ketball.  
3. Today basketball has become the________ game.  
4. Dr Naismith died at the age of ________ .
5. Basketball became an________ sport at the games inBerlin in 1936.

    Did you hear about Zhao Xiaoting? She wasa college student in Wuhan. When she was incollege, she did well in all her subjects. And shewas s   1   to find a good job in big cities. Butin July 2010, she went to Guizhou to teach as av   2   . Her parents were very m   3    at herbecause of this.    
    When she got to a rural v   4   , she foundit was very p   5   .But she felt very l   6 _because people there were very friendly. Thenshe stayed there and taught the kids English, dancing and so on. People there loved her verymuch.    
    Most of the roads in Guizhou are throughthe mountains. Sometimes they were in d    7   while they were walking on the road. On July21th, 2010,  a big stone fell down from themountain and hit Zhao on the head when shewas walking on the road. It made her die.   Her death gave a great i    8   to thecollege students. They made a d    9   to go onteaching in these a   10   and help those poorchildren.

1.______2.______3.______4.______5.______6.______7.______8.______9.______10.______

     Though Anjan  Bhattachary  was  deaf  (聋的 ) , eared a good name in cricket (板球). He was
born on October 15, 1951, in West Bengal. When he did not speak or respond to sound, his family
members were very sad. Anjan was strong and very active. He started playing cricket at an early age.
The fact that Anjan was neither able to talk nor hear did not affect (影响) his performance. Very soon
he was  chosen in the state learn of schoolchildren. He showed excellent performance in the matches
one after another.
     At the early age 13,he was chosen in the school team of the East Zone. At the age of fifteen,Anjan
was chosen in the national (国家的)  team of schoolboys. In 1966,he played two test matches with the
school team of London.In 1969 he went to Lucknow to take part in the Sir Frank Warrel Cricket
Tournament. The 18-year-old boy had much success in this match.
     Anjan was so popular that not only his teammates and club members,but even the members of the
opposite team admired (钦佩) him.

根据短文内容，回答问题。

1. When was Anjan born?
    ______________________________
2. What's the matter with Anjan when he was born?
     ______________________________
3. Was Anjan an active boy?
     ______________________________
4. How old was Anjan when he joined in the national team of schoolboys?
                                                          
5. Why did even Anjan's opposite team admire him?
                                                          

     Edison worked as a telegraph operator (电报员)when he was young. He worked at night; during the day he read books and made experiments. He was very tired. Sometimes he slept at night,and,so the other operators got angry. When they sent a message,Edison did not answer. He was asleep. They soon found a way to keep him awake. They told him to telegraph the letter A every hour,and in order to do this,he had to stay awake.  
     Edison did not like this at all; he was still tired. So he invented a new machine which sent the letter A every hour. It never,never failed. Machines are not like people who forget. So the other operators received the letter every hour.   They could not believe that Edison was such a wonderful man. One night they went quietly to his room and looked in. He was sleeping deeply,and his new machine was sending the letter A !       
     Edison continued his experiments in New York,but he had not got much money. He invented another machine.This one printed the messages which the telegraph received. There was by chance a rich man there who was studying the electric telegraph. As soon as he saw me new machine he bought it for about 8,000 dollars.  
     With this money Edison was able to get some other scientists to help him. He invented a lot of different things. One of these was a talking-machine. We call it a record player. Our modern record-player is better than the old one,of course; but Edison's machine was the first of its kind in the world.

1.When did Edison work as a telegraph operator?  

A. When he was young.        
B. In the morning.  
C. During the day.             
D. On weekends.

2. How did Edison manage to type the letter?  A every hour? 

A. He typed the letter himself.  
B. Another operator helped him.  
C. A scientist telegraphed the letter for him.  
D. He invented a machine which helped him.

3. How did Edison get 8,000 dollars?  

A. He worked very hard day and night.  
B. He read books and made experiments.  
C. He sold his new machine to a rich man.  
D. He made several machines for his boss.

4. What happened first iri the story?  

A. Edison invented an instrument to telegraph the letter A.  
B. Edison sometimes fell asleep when he was on duty.  
C. Some scientists were asked to help Edison.  
D. Other operators went to Edison's room.