Mary Josephine Ray，the New Hampshire woman，who was the oldest person living in the United States，has died at age 114 years,294 days.She died yesterday at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death，her granddaughter Katherine Ray said.

“She just enjoyed life.She never thought of dying at all，”Kather­ine Ray said.“She was planning for her birthday party.”

Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest in the world，according to the Gerontology Research Group.She was also recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire.

Ray was born on May 17,1895，in Bloomfield，Prince Edward Island，Canada.She moved to the United States at the age of 3.She lived for 60 years in Anson，Maine.She lived in Florida，Massachusetts and elsewhere in New Hampshire before she moved to Westmoreland in 2002 to be near her children.Ray’s husband，Walter，died in 1967.Survivors include 2 sons,8 grandchildren,13 great­grandchildren and 5 great­great grandchildren.

The oldest living American is now Neva Morris of Ames，Iowa，at age 114 years,216 days.The oldest person in the world is Japan’s Kama Chinen at age 114 years,301 days.Morris，the Iowa woman now believed to be the oldest US resident (居民)，lives at a care center.Only one of her four children，a son in Sioux City，is still alive.

6．What is the best title for this passage?

A．The oldest person in the US died at age 114.

B．The oldest person in the US died for no reason.

C．The oldest person in the US wanted to live longer.

D．The oldest person in the US was happy at a nursing home.

7．Which of the following statements about Mary Josephine Ray is WRONG?

A．She was born on May 17,1895，in Canada.

B．She died at the age of 114 years,294 days.

C．She was still very active in her last two weeks.

D．She was not at her own home when she died.

8．From what Katherine Ray said，we can learn Mary Josephine Ray________.

A．didn’t know how to enjoy life

B．didn’t like holding a birthday party

C．was afraid nobody would come to her birthday party

D．was not troubled by the thought of dying

9．What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A．Mary Josephine Ray liked moving.

B．Mary Josephine Ray lived a very hard life.

C．Mary Josephine Ray had a very big family.

D．Mary Josephine Ray lived with her children until 2002.

10．According to the passage，who is the oldest person in the world?

A．Mary Josephine Ray.                           B．Neva Morris.

C．Kama Chinen.                                      D．Walter.

Sarah Winchester lived in California. She was a very  1 woman. She didn’t buy many jewels(珠宝)or  2 clothes.   3 , she spent millions in  4 a house. She began to do it at the age of 45. The strange thing about Sarah’s  5 was that it seemed never finished. The work on the house went on for 38  6 because Sarah was afraid to  7 building it.

Sarah’s house was near San Jose. Every day, a lot of  8 arrived there to work for her. Sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows,   9 the workers kept on building them. The house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. There were 200 doors and 1,000  10 . There were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces.

Why did Sarah want a house that kept getting  11 ? It was because Sarah was afraid of  12 . She thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didn’t want her house to be finished.

Sarah Winchester’s  13 seemed to have worked  14 she lived to be 83 years old. But   15 , her house was finished.

1.                A．poor           B．rich            C．useful    D．brave

2.                A．cheap          B．expensive       C．simple    D．old

3.                A．Still            B．Usually         C．Instead   D．Even

4.                A．building        B．buying          C．selling    D．setting

5.                A．door           B．window         C．kitchen   D．house

6.                A．years          B．months         C．weeks    D．days

7.                A．keep           B．enjoy          C．stop D．help

8.                A．drivers         B．workers        C．farmers   D．visitors

9.                A．but            B．until           C．since D．so

10.               A．floors          B．kitchens        C．windows   D．rooms

11.               A．bigger          B．smaller         C．stronger   D．cleaner

12.               A．working        B．dying          C．living D．growing

13.               A．age            B．family          C．plan  D．husband

14.               A．or             B．because        C．neither    D．nor

15.               A．hardly          B．usefully        C．carefully   D．finally

A: Have you seen Li Ling these days?

B: No, she’s gone to Jilin 1. __________ her grandfather.

A: Has she ever been there before?

B: Yes, she lived there before she came here.

A: Have you 2. __________ her?

B: Yes, I’ve just received a letter from her.

A: 3. __________?

B: She said she had a very good time and would 4. __________ there for another week.

A: What else did she say?

B: She also wanted me to give her best 5. __________ to you.

A: It was very nice of her to say so.

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Annie lived alone in Chicago. One day, she fell down in her bedroom and broke her leg. So she tried to call her friend Lisa. But she dialed(拨打) a wrong number. The call reached Taylor, an 18-year-old girl. She was a college student and she lived hundreds of miles away from Chicago.

At that time Taylor was reading in bed. She thought it was somebody playing a joke. When she was going to hang up the phone, she heard a woman saying “Help! Help! ” From it Taylor thought something bad must have happened to the woman. After she got the woman’s name and address, Taylor called 911 at once. Then she tried to make Annie feel comfortable. She spoke to Annie on the phone till the doctors arrived at Annie’s house. At last Annie was taken to hospital in time.

As soon as Annie felt better, she wrote a letter to Taylor to thank her.

1.Who answered the telephone?                                            

2.How did Taylor help Annie?                                             

3.Why did Annie write the letter to Taylor?                              

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Nogoba was a cavegirl. She lived in a cave with about 40 other people. Cavepeople lived in big groups to help each other. Their l    1     were very dangerous. There were many w   2
animals near the caves — lions, tigers, bears and elephants.
The cavemen hunted. They k    3   the animals for food. The children’s jobs were dangerous, too. Nogoba and her friends went to the river every day to get w   4   . Sometimes, the river was very deep. S    5   , there were animals near the river.
For many months of the y    6   , Nogoba was cold. There was ice and snow everywhere. It was difficult to be w    7  . The children sometimes went to sleep by the fire. Sometimes they were too n    8   the fire.
Sometimes Nogoba and her friends went to f    9     fruit and nuts to eat. Sometimes the fruit and nuts were poisonous and everyone became i   10  . There weren’t any cave doctors or cave hospitals!