----Do you doubt _______ she can run the race?

---- Yes, I doubt _______ she can run against Liu Xiang

A．that; whether      B．whether; that       C．that; that          D．whether; if

It was not until dark ______ he found that it was the correct way to solve the problem.

A．that              B．what             C．which            D．when

I’d appreciate _____ if you would like to teach me how to use the computer.

A．that              B．this              C．it                D．/

We expect her to do the housework as well _________ after the children.

A．as look           B．as looking         C．and look          D．Looking

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But  21  a few of them are very  22 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a   23  language. Many millions are   24  to do so.

Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different   25  . Have you ever   26  ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? “Learn English in six weeks, or your   27 back.”.“Easy and funny! Our records and tapes   28   you master(掌握) your English in a month.  29  the first day your   30  will be excellent. Just send us ... ” Of course, it never  31  quite like this.

The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should   32  that we all learned our own language well when we were  33 . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult.   34   what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it,  35  in it all the time. Just imagine how much  36  that gets!

So it is  37  to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English  38   upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and   39   much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will   40 . But they cannot do the student's work for him.

1.                A．not            B．quite           C．only D．very

2.                A．difficult         B．important       C．necessary D．easy

3.                A．native          B．foreign         C．useful    D．mother

4.                A．learning        B．enjoying        C．trying    D．liking

5.                A．questions       B．problems       C．ideas D．answers

6.                A．found          B．watched        C．noticed   D．known

7.                A．knowledge      B．time           C．money   D．English

8.                A．make          B．help           C．let   D．allow

9.                A．From          B．On            C．Since D．After

10.               A．spelling        B．grammar        C．English    D．pronunciation

11.               A．happened      B．looked         C．seemed   D．felt

12.               A．know          B．remember      C．understand D．think

13.               A．students        B．children        C．babies D．grown-ups

14.               A．Imagine        B．Mind          C．Do   D．Think of

15.               A．using          B．thinking        C．trying D．practicing

16.               A．time           B．money         C．language  D．practice

17.               A．hard           B．easy           C．funny D．silly

18.               A．depends        B．tries           C．has   D．takes

19.               A．uses           B．takes          C．gets  D．costs

20.               A．do            B．work           C．help  D．master

“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.

I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.

I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.

She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.

1.When the fire arose in the middle of the night, the author was _______.

A．at home          B．sleeping           C．sitting in bed       D．both A and B

2.The author saved the baby _____.

A．because he was very brave.               B．because he liked the baby very much.

C．but he just happened to save it.             D．because it was the Mayor’s baby.

3.He ran in the wrong direction because he _______.

A．was a stranger there                     B．could see nothing

C．was not completely awake                 D．Both A and C

4.He put the bundle over his face and ran in order to ______.

A．save the baby      B．call for help        C．protect his face     D．run quickly

5.Form which group of words, we can learn the fire took place out of people’s surprise?______

A．old and wooden house, a bundle           B．crashed to, fell down

C．terrible, half-awake                      D．bare feet, a borrowed man’s coat

It doesn’t matter when and how much a person sleeps , but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought , until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said , never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.

Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.

1.The main idea of this passage is that_____

A．large numbers of people do not need sleep

B．a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleep

C．everyone needs some sleep to stay alive

D．people can live longer by trying not to sleep

2.The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting_____

A．to cure him of his sleeplessness

B．to find that his sleeplessness was not really true

C．to find out why some old people did not need any sleep

D．to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping

3.After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Herpin_____

A．needed some kind of sleep

B．was too old to need any sleep

C．needed no sleep at all

D．often sleep in a chair

4.One reason that might explain Herpin’s sleeplessness was _____

A．his mother’s injury before he was born

B．that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit

C．his magnificent physical condition

D．that he hadn’t got a bed

5.Herpin’s condition could be regarded as ______

A．a common one     B．one that could be cured                  C．very healthy D．a rare one

Science, as we think, was born when the Greek philosopher (哲学家) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?

No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance (物质) of the universe.

Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.

The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements (元素)”.

1.Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about_________.

A．94 years old       B．106years old       C．40 years old       D．46 years old

2.The meaning of the underlined word “complicated” in the last paragraph is “_______”.

A．not difficult        B．not simple         C．not famous        D．not different

3.From the passage we know that _______.

A．Thales asked many questions              B．Greeks were all philosophers

C．science began long ago                   D．water and air make up all things.

4.On the whole, the passage tells about _______.

A．early tries to understand the universe       B．the famous Greek thinkers

C．water falling from the sky                 D．air lying all around the earth

5.After reading the passage, we can be sure that_______.

A．nothing ever changes in the universe

B．Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air

C．the universe is made up of four different substances

D．the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science

根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项.

Without plants, people could not live. We eat plants. 1   And we need plants for another reason: we need them because they are beautiful.

2      Imagine no flowers with their sweet smell, their beautiful colors and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we’re not able to hear the leaves in the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.

3     That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why people always like houses with room for some grass or a garden.

Do you talk to your plants? 4     Peter Tompking and Christopher Bird wrote a book called The Secret Life Of Plants, telling of an experiment in which two seeds were planted in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant was given love and hopeful ideas. The other plant was given only hopeless ideas. 5    Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves. While the other one nearly stopped growing.

A．Plants get energy from the sun.

B．Do you give them love and attention?

C．After six months, the deserted plant faded away.

D．After six months, the beloved plant was bigger.

E. We take in oxygen that plants make.

F. Everywhere people need beautiful plants.

G. Imagine a world with no plants.

阅读下面短文，根据所学课文内容填入适当的词语，使文章合理通顺，每空一词。

Have you ever wanted to be part of a band as a famous singer or musician? To be 1       , a lot of people 2           great importance to becoming rich and famous. Most musicians often meet and 3           a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may give 4____________ in pubs or clubs, for 5_______   they are paid in cash. However, there was one band that started in a different way. It was called the Monkees and began as a TV show. The musicians were to play 6_______  on each other as well as play music, most of which was 7            loosely on “The Beatles”. And the Monkees’ performances were 8           enough to be copied by other groups. After a year or so, they started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Though the band 9   ____  up in about 1970, they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they 10          their former time as a real band.

The Olympic Games 11_________ the biggest sports meeting in the world. There are two main sets of Olympic Games -- the Winter and the Summer Olympics. Both of them are held 12______    four years on a 13            basis. Nowadays all countries can take part. But only athletes14            have reached the agreed standard for their event will be 15____________ as competitors. Women are not only allowed to join in the Olympics but play a very important role.