Astronauts’ meals have come a long way from the free-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago，now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the moon．

   Scientists say they are looking forward to a time when residents of future lunar or even Martian outsteps will be able to dine on fresh vegetables．Paragon Space Development Corporation has unveiled what it called the first step toward growing flowers——and eventually food—on the moon.

   This is a sealed greenhouse that looks like a bell jar encased in a 46-cm triangular aluminium frame(三角铝框架)．It is designed to safely land a laboratory plant on the lunar surface，and protect it while it grows．

   The miniature greenhouse is to be launched into space by Odyssey Moon Ltd, a participant in the Google Lunar X Prize. This competition offers $20 million to any entrant(参加者) who can launch，land and operate a rover（漫游）on the lunar surface.

   Paragon officials say future testing of the“Lunar Oasis”will be driven by Odyssey’s flight schedule，which will not happen until 2012 at the earliest．

   When it does lift off the greehouse will contain the seeds of Brassica, a hardy plant related to Brussels sprouts and cabbage．Because Brassica goes from seed to flower in just 14 days，it can complete its life cycle in a single lunar night

   “Colonizing the Moon or Mars seems so far away，but it is important that we do this research now，” Paragon president Jane Poynter said．

    “It takes a long time to get a lot of research，and to get integrated，reliable efficient systems before colonists move in．”she said．

1.The article is written mainly to _________.

    A. predict the astronauts’meals in the future

    B. introduce an experiment“Lunar Oasis’’

    C. tell us the future development of astronomy

    D. focus on the human’s great progress

2.The article implies that __________.

    A. astronauts ean grow flowers in space at present

    B. Paragon and NASA will carry out the test separately

    C. Lunar Oasis is a series of experiments carried out in space

    D. the earliest testing of the Lunar Oasis may be in 2012

3.The underlined word “colonists”in the last paragraph probably has the meaning of _______.

    A. plants    B. wild beasts    C. human beings   D. scientists

4.The seeds of Brassica will be contained in the greenhouse mainly because _______.

    A. their life cycle is much shorter

    B. they are more nutritious than other food

    C. they are related to Brussels sporouts and cabbage

    D. they are very delicious

第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

If someone asks you how you can make you always 5._______

happy, you will perhaps find rather difficult to give him   6._______

a proper answer．Did you remember the old saying“No    7._______

human being can really happy who is not giving or trying    8._______

to give happiness to others”? If you will always think of  9._______

taking more from others and give them less，you won’t be   10._______

able to have happiness in your life even you are very rich. 11._______

Here’s an article for you. If each of you follow it, there 12._______

will be all end of many unhappy days of yours．So you should    13._______

learn to give up your own interests when necessarily to do so.  14._______

   假定你是李华，准备参加学校举办的主题为“健康成长”的英语作文比赛。请按照要求写一篇短文，主要内容包括：

1．乐观的人生态度； 2.努力学习； 3. 参加体育锻炼。

注意：1. 词数100左右； 2.可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯；3.开头已经给出

    We all want to grow up happily and healthily, and for this goal we must do several things. ________________________________________________________________

 While having lunch with a friend recently, we got into a _____ that is pretty frequent in China about morning greeting.

A. conversation    B. conservation    C. reservation    D. criterion

 Returning from Italy, he told us a lot of _______ about the Leaning Tower of Pisa, especially some tales about it and the present government’s efforts to save it from collapse.

A. interests       B. anecdotes       C. rumors         D. assessments

 With the housing price going up and up, even far beyond the public’s affordability,  more and more people ______ the government take more strict measures over the second mortgage. 

A. advocate        B. claim           C. promote        D. allocate

 Unwilling to wake up her sound sleeping husband, she ______ a note, telling him that she would come back very late, and put it under his pillow.

A. made            B. played          C. struck         D. scratched

 Financial markets will be disturbed as ______ business adjusts its working approaches and policies from an assumption of 3-3.5% potential output growth.

A. compulsory      B. conventional    C. contradictory  D. contemporary

 The sense of beauty that Zhouzhuang gave me lies in its pace of life, which ____ remains her own sense of time in close proximity to a modern but busy city: waters there are flowing the total time , quiet and slow.

A. constantly      B. eventually      C. universally    D. stubbornly

 To keep Chinese economy going on, the government has established an employment service system for _____ jobless urban residents, and for older laid-off and unemployed persons.

A. badly off       B. well off        C. cut off        D. paid off

 Though the NMET is drawing near day by day, I still find I have so much to learn , to revise, to memorize and to analyze but without enough time. Oh, dear, everything seems to be____.

A. in a row        B. in a mess       C. in a mass      D. in a queue