A few years ago, Dave Stirling had the idea of selling CDs over the Internet. The business he started from his home in Ohio, the USA, now sells 500,000 CDs a year and has made him into a millionaire(百万富翁)at the age of 24.

“I could see that this was the future of shopping,” says Stirling. “Why should you pay $15 for a CD and spend the time and the money getting into the store and parking your car? You can have the same CD for half of the price by clicking(敲击)on your computer. And we can find any CD you want and bring it to your door in 24 hours!” 

According to Stirling, this is the only beginning, “I believe that one day we’ll do our shopping over the net: it’s easier, quicker and cheaper. Shops and supermarkets will be the past.” 

1.Dave Stiring started his business from______.

A. his home     B. his company      C. the office       D. the country

2.How has Stirling become so rich?

A. By making ice cream.         B. By making advertisements.

C. By selling ideas to others. D. By selling CDs over the Internet.

3.If you pay $15 for a CD in the store, how much should you pay for it over the net?

A.$15.      B.$12.      C.$7.5.         D.$30.

4.By shopping over the net, you won’t_____.

A. spend the time and the money     B. drive your car any more

C. click on your computer           D. get into the store by yourself

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. More than half of the Americans prefer to shop over the net.

B. Shops and supermarkets will be the past in the future.

C. Some people don’t like to go shopping over the Internet.

D. It’s easier, quicker and more expensive to do our shopping over the net.

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In the past, words were the only way for people to express their thoughts, ideas and feelings. They wrote diaries, then blogs. Now people have a new way to write their diaries: Podcasts(播客).

To make Podcasts, people can use pictures, sounds, and videos together with their words to express what they want to say. Some people don’t writing anything. They use pictures, sounds and movies instead of words.

Someone says that a Podcast is like a personal TV station. People don’t have to spend money putting them on the Internet, so it is easy for people to make them and watch them. Podcasts are more interesting than blogs, and people can have more fun making and watching them too.

.He was the only person _______was invited to the party.

A. that     B. which     C. who    D. whom

What can people do when natural disasters (灾难）happen? Can we stop them? No, we can't. The only thing we can do is to  41   after the disasters.

    Last year I met Mr. Flood. It started raining and   42   raining almost a month: the water on the streets got higher and higher every day. We used   43   instead of cars. We lost lots of things, including our businesses, our jobs and our homes.

    Schools   44   and farms were destroyed. We ran out of food and clean water. In some places the water was higher than the buildings. I felt like we lived in a(n)  45 _ world.

    Because of the flood, lots of  46  broke out. Because of the dead animals, some people  47  . The soil and other things made the water become very, very  48 _. That was in summer time, so though it was raining, the  49  was still high. The hot weather and really dirty water  50  the air very bad. Hospitals didn't have enough rooms for  51  .

    When the flood was over, I looked around my city. The word “ 52 ” can describe the situation. Everything was destroyed and lots of people were sick, but we were very  53  .1 think.

    We had to 54  our city, take care of the sick people, and start our schools again. I just 55 that one day, people can stop the natural disasters whenever they happen. After all, people are very clever.

1.A. wake up       B. make up         C. clean up

2.A. kept          B. finished          C. stopped

3.A. bikes         B. trains            C. boats

4.A. started        B. closed           C. opened

5.A. water.        B. fire              C. ice

6.A. happiness     B. illnesses          C. hardness

7.A. ran          B. slept             C. died

8.A. dirty         B. clean             C. clear

9.A. temperature   B. weather           C. water

10.A. had.         B. made             C. changed

11.A. nurses       B. doctors            C. patients

12.A. sad          B. beautiful          C. good

13.A. weak        B. strong            C. happy

14.A. rebuild       B. return            C. remain

15.A. want         B. hope             C. see

1.How did Daniel get to New York?

2.What is Daniel’s flat like?

A. It’s far away from his office.   B. It’s quite cheap

C. It’s very big.                       D. It’s very nice.

3.What does Daniel NOT tell us?

A. Whether he has visited New York before.

B. Where he stayed before he found a flat.

C. Why he had a party on April Fool’s Day.

D. What his workmates and new neighbours are like.