People usually hate mice, but people almost all over the world like one mouse--- the famous Mickey
Mouse.Fifty years ago, most films had no sounds. A man called Walt Disney made a cartoon mouse. The cartoon mouse could talk in these films. He named his mouse became a good friend of both young people and old people. Children liked to see their lovely friend, because he brought happiness to them.
     Mickey is a clean mouse right from the beginning. Maybe this is why people love Mickey Mouse very much. In his early life, Mickey did some wrong things. People were very angry. They wrote to Disney and said they didn’t want Mickey to do the wrong things. Because there were some things that Mickey could
not do. Disney made a new animal called Donald Duck. He also made a dog, Pluto. This dog does some
foolish(愚蠢) and wrong things whenever he goes. Now, our Mickey Mouse is more interesting as well.
He is known as a star of beauty and wisdom(智慧).He has his friends in almost  every country.

1. Mickey Mouse first came out _______.
A. on TV  
B. in the film  
C. in the play  
D.in a picture-book
2. Children love Mickey Mouse because _______.
A. it can speak  
B. it is clean  
C. it makes them happy  
D. it is a mouse.
3. The dog, Pluto, is _______.
A. a fool that often does something wrong
B. a clever dog that can do everything well.
C. a beautiful dog that people like very much.
D. a famous dog as a star of beauty and wisdom.
4. The best title(标题) for the passage is _______.
A. Pluto                    
B. Donald Duck  
C. Donald Duck and Pluto      
D. Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
5. Why did Disney make Duck?_______.
A. Because Mickey Mouse are very lonely.
B. Because there were some things that Mickey could not do .
C. Because Mickey was able to do everything.
D. Because people didn’t like Mickey Mouse any more.

     We each have memory (记忆力). That’s why we still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things in a shot time, but some people can only
remember things when they say or do them again and again. Many of the great men of the world have
surprising memories.
      A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns his mother language when he
is a small child. He learns the sounds, remember them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages easily because they hear, remember
and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the
students have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.
     But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.

1. Why can some people easily learn many things in a short time?
A. They always sleep very well
B. They often eat good food and fish.
C. They read a lot of books.
D. They have very good memories.
2. When does everyone learn his mother language?
A. At the age of six.
B. When he is a small child.
C. After he goes to school.
D. When he can read and write.
3. What does a child need to do before he can speak?
A. He must read and write.
B. He must chat with others.
C. He must hear and remember the sounds.
D. He must think hard and listen to much music.
4. What can you do if you want your memory become better?
A. You must eat a lot of food, especially lots of fish.
B. You must keep practicing it.
C. You must say or do things only once.
D. You must become a great man.
5. Why can a Chinese learn English easily if he is in England?
A. Because he must speak English every day.
B. Because he will have a good memory in England, not in China.
C. Because his father is an English man.
D. Because his English teacher is better in England.

     (1)The weather in Australia(澳大利亚) is not the same as ours, because the seasons are opposite.
When it is winter in China, it is summer there. Australia is a southern country. It is in the south of the
world. June, July and August are the winter months; September, October and November are spring;
the summer is in December, January and February; and March, April and May are the autumn months.
     A very large part of the country has no rain at all. The east coast(海岸)has rain all the year. There
are no dry months there. The southeast winds blow all the year. (2) bring, they, rain, from, sea, the.
There is not much rain on the west side. The southeast part of Australia has summer rain from the
southeast winds. They only blow here in summer.
1. 将 (1) 处翻译成中文。
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2. 将（2）处的词语连成一个完整句。
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3. Which part of the world is Australia in?
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4. Why does the east coast have rain all year round?
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5. What’s the Chinese meaning of "blow"?
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     The largest animal ever to live on earth is the blue whale (鲸). It weighs about 80 tons-more than 24
elephants. It is more than 30 metres long. A new-born baby whale weighs as much as a big elephant.
     Cats can survive falls from very high place because they can turn themselves up the right way so as
to keep their body safe. One cat fell 32 floors on to the street, but was just hurt a little.
     A bear can run as fast as a horse.
     A new-born panda is smaller than a mouse, and weighs about 100 grams.
     Elephants are the most careful animals in their love. A male elephant may show his lady love for up
to three years until the lady takes his love. They often show their love  by t ouching each other's body.
     Usually, wolves do not attack people, For years a Canadian newspaper  says that they show that
they would give anyone quite a   lot  money if   they could show  a  wolf  had attacked a person. But
nobody could do that. Wolves do not usually go together though they may do this in winter.

1. How much does a new-born blue whale weigh?

A.10 tons
B. As much as a small whale  
C. As much as 10 elephants    
D. More than 3 tons

2. Cats can survive falls because_____ in the fall.

A. they can keep themselves safe
B. they are small and very soft
C. they can keep themselves away
D. they can put something under their bodies.

3. Elephants show their love by_____.

A. looking at each other    
B. touching each other
C. courting each other      
D. moving their bodies

4. A male elephant __________ keep following his lady until the lady takes his love.  

A. will    
B. won't    
C. shall    
D. didn't

     Do you know that animals have love for each other and their children just like us humans (人类)? Let
me tell you some moving (令人感动的) stories of great animal parents.
     Several years ago a heavy rain h  1        a town   and   made the river go up. When the rain stopped,
people found that a dog swam to an island in the river t  2       a day for two weeks. Why did she do so?
Her four children were there. The mother swam there every day to f  3   her babies. This t  4    story on
the newspaper moved many people.
     Another story is about chimpanzees (猩猩). A scientist named Jane Goodall spent 4 years  l    5     
with chimpanzees in Africa. She found that chimpanzees also cared for those that were hurt or got lost.
"It is not only humans who have d 6  , animals also do," she said.
     Two birds in Chengdu also showed their parents' l  7 . Their baby was h  8  and fell on the street in
the center of the city. Cars were d  9      past but the brave parents rushed down to the road and took
the little bird a  10   with their claws (爪子).

     A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettifer in Britain when he was
working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.
     The meteorite weighed (重量) one kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百万) years old.
     "I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the trees coming and going,” he said.
     "I didn't know what it was.”
     Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth
every year, but only very few are found. Mr. Pettifer's meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the
Second World War.
     Mr. Pettifer is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something strange."

1. The meteorite was ______ Mr Pettifer when it fell down.
A. close to
B. far from
C. hitting
D. coming to
2. The meteorite was already ______ years old.
A. 40,000,000,000
B. 40,000,000
C. 400,000,000
D. 4,000,000,000
3. Mr. Pettifer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ______.
A. the trees were afraid
B. the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving
C. it was going to rain
D. the moving was made by wind
4. ______ people see a meteorite fall although they visit the earth often each year.
A. Quite a few
B. some
C. Few
D. Many
5. Mr. Pettifer was ______ to see the falling of the meteorite.
A. happyB. afraid
C. sorry
D. angry

     Life in the 2100s will be very different from life today. ( 1 ) Between then and now many changes will take place. What will the changes be?
     The population(人口) is growing fast. There will be more people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
     Computers will be smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.
     ( 2 )People will work ________ hours than they do now and they will have ________ free time for relaxing, such as sport, watching TV and traveling. Traveling will be easier and cheaper. More people will go to other countries on holiday.
      There will be changes in our food, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. There will be less room for cows and sheep. So meat will be expensive. Maybe no one will eat it every day. Instead, they eat fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
      Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work will be done by robots, because of this, many people will have less work to do. This will be a problem.
1.将（1 ）句译成汉语。
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2.在（2 ）句空白处填入合适的词，使句意完整通顺。
__________      ___________
3.回答问题：How many changes are mentioned(提及) in the passage?
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4.在文章中找出“Because robots do much dangerous and hard work, there will be less work for
people to do.”的同义句。
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5. 在文章中找出本文的中心句。
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     School education(教育) is very important and useful. Yet no one can l    1    everything at school
and a teacher can’t teach his students e    2     they want to know. His job is to s    3     his students how
to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So the students can learn much more by t    4    .
     It is more i    5     to know how to study by oneself. It’s quite easy to learn something, but it’s difficult
to u    6     it to solve problems. Great inventors do not get everything from school, but they still can invent many things and change the world a l    7    .
     How can the inventors do all of this? That’s b    8     they know how to study. A lot of things are not
taught in the classroom. They get a lot of knowledge by reading o    9     school. They work hard and
never g  10   up all their lives.

     Perhaps you have heard a lot about the Internet, but what is it?
     The Internet is many different networks around the world. A network is a group of computers put together. These networks joined together are called the Internet．
     Maybe that doesn’t sound interesting. But when we’ve joined the Internet, there are lots of things we can do. We can find lots of interesting information on the World Wide Web(www). We can use the Internet instead of a library to find all kinds of information for our homework. We can find information about our favourite sports or film stars and do shopping on the Internet. We can also send messages to other people by e-mail. It is much cheaper and quicker than calling our friends or sending a letter.
     Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. People can now work at home with a computer in front of them, getting and sending the information they need. They can buy or sell whatever they want by the Internet. But do you know 98％of the information is in English? So what will English be like tomorrow?

1.The passage is mainly about_______.
A. the Internet
B. information
C. computers
D. e mail
2.The quickest and cheapest way for people to send messages to their friends is_______.
A. by postB. by e-mailC. by telephoneD. by TV
3.The Internet cannot be used to_______.
A. find information for our homework
B. get some information about our favourite sports stars
C. do some shopping
D. do our housework
4.Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The Internet is a big computer．
B. The Internet is lots of computer networks．
C. The Internet is very helpful．
D. People can work at home with the help of the Internet．
5. What does the writer try to tell us with the last two sentences?
A. The Internet is more and more popular．
B. All the information is in English．
C. English is important in using the Internet．
D. Every computer must join the Internet．

     Australia has a lot of lovely animals. You cannot find them anywhere else in the world. The most
famous ones are kangaroos and koalas (树袋熊).
     The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia. They have large eyes and ears. They don't walk, they jump.
They use their strong back legs. They can jump at up to 74 kilometers per hour. They can go over nine
meters in one jump!
     Kangaroo mothers have pouches (育儿袋) to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk
and keep warm.
     Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia. They are on TV, in books and in the shops. The government
even wants to put them on passports (护照).
     But do you know that millions of kangaroos are killed every year? There are too many of them.
     There are about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. That's more than the number of people in the
country!
     Some kangaroos go hungry because there is not enough food to eat. They break into farms for food.
Farmers are very angry with them.
     The koala is another famous Australian animal. They look like bears, and have small eyes and big
noses. They eat leaves from eucalyptus, where they spend most of their time.
     Koalas have a special smell. They use it to mark their home — "This is my place, you can't come in!"
     Like kangaroos, a koala baby lives in its mother's pouch.
     But koalas have fewer places to live in. There are about 100,000 koalas in Australia. There is a law
to keep them safe.

1. Kangaroos and koalas are the most famous animals in Australia because _____.

A. there are not many of them
B. they can't live in other countries
C. we can't see them in any other country except Australia
D. they are lovely animals

2. Which of the following is WRONG about kangaroos?

A. They can run at up to seventy-eight kilometers per hour.
B. They have large eyes and ears.
C. Kangaroo mothers have pouches to carry their babies.
D. There are many of them in Australia.

3. Why does the Australian government kill some kangaroos each year?

A. They can make more money.
B. Kangaroos break into farms for food.
C. Kangaroos do not have enough food to eat.
D. There are more kangaroos than people.

4. What do koalas use to mark their home?

A Their footprint.
B. Their sound.
C. Their fur.
D. Their smell.

5. What is the similarity (相同之处) between a kangaroo and a koala?

A. There are too many of them in Australia.
B. They keep their babies in the mother's pouch.
C. They have a special smell.
D. They can jump very high.