摘要： ---The weather in Yichang now is very cold, isn’t it? --- . Only today is. It’s usually quite warm at this time of year. A. Yes, it is B. No, it isn’t C. Yes, it isn’t D. No, it is

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When we want to find out what the weather will be like tomorrow, we usually turn on the TV. But people also needed to forecast (predict) the weather before they had TV. How did they do it in the past? They’d find an outdoor space, look up, look around, and listen.

Look UP

Red sky at night, sailor’s delight!

Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning!

This weather poem was written a long time ago, but it still works today. Weather in many parts of the wold moves from west to east. Whatever weather is in the weat tonight will probably be with us tomorrow. So a red sky at night, as the sun is setting, usually means a sunny day for the next day.

Look Around

Animals, insects, and plants are natural weather forecasters.

When a summer storm is coming , you may notice that dogs, cows and horses grow restless. Theses animals don’t have some mysterious sixth sense, but they do have super-sensitive hearing. Scientists think the animals can forecast thunderstorms （雷雨）because they can hear the sound waves(声波)made by them many miles away.

When leaves show their undersides, be very certain, rain happens.

Listen

If you hear a cricket, it can tell you the exact temperature. Just count its chirps (啾啾声) for fourteen seconds and then add forty. This will give you the Fahrenheit temperature of the cricket within a very few degrees. Since crickets are cold-blooded, the temperature of the cricket is about the same as the air around it.

So learn to predict the weather the way people did in the past. Get outside, look up, look around, and listen. Soon you’ll be your very own weather forecaster.

64. Did people need to forecast the weather before they had TV?

65. What does a red sky at night mean for the next day?

66.Why can animals forecast thunderstorms?

67.How can we know the temperature from a cricket?

68. What does the passage mainly tell us?

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　　Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890．She didn't go to school because her mother wanted to teach her at home．She studied the piano and singing in Paris．

　　She got married(结婚)in 1914 to a pilot(飞行员)and they had one daughter．During the First World War(战争), when she was working as a nurse, she began to write detective novels(侦探小说), In the hospital, she learned a lot about drugs(药品), and she used these in her novels．

　　She wrote her first novel in 1920．The hero(主人公)was a detective, Hercules Poirot．The book soon became a best seller(畅销书)and made her famous．

　　In 1928, Agatha Christie was lost．The police found her two weeks later．She didn't know anything．This was the front page news in all the newspapers in Britain, and even today nobody knows what happened to her during those two weeks．

　　In 1929, Agatha Christie went on holiday to the Middle East．She came home to England in 1930．

　　After that, she travelled with her husband to the Middle East many times, and a lot of her later stories took place there, for example, Murder on the Nile．She also wrote the detective Miss Marple, and began to write plays．One of them, The Mousetrap, opened at a theatre in the Weat End of London in 1952, and is still on today．

　　During her life she wrote nearly eighty detective stories．She also wrote other novels under the pen name of Mary Westmacott．She died in January 1976 at the age of eighty-six．

　　Agatha Christie's detective novels are famous for their surprising endings(结局)．

(1)

Christie began to write detective novels ________．
[　　]
A．	in 1914
B．	during World War I
C．	at home
D．	since she married

(2)

The detective in Christie's first novel is ________．
[　　]
A．	Poirot
B．	her mother
C．	Marple
D．	an archaeologist

(3)

Why was Christie lost for two weeks in 1928?
[　　]
A．	Because she was ill．
B．	Because she got married．
C．	Because she wanted to write novels herself．
D．	Nobody knows．

(4)

Why did her detective novels interest(使……感兴趣)so many readers? Because ________．
[　　]
A．	they have a sad ending
B．	they have an unusual ending
C．	there is always a murder in her novels
D．	Christie was very famous

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Sandy is talking to Amy about her day in Weat Hill. Complete their conversation with the words from the box and the opposites of the words in brackets.

chessboard　dentist　lonely　married　medicine　miss

Sandy:

I want to write about West Hill for my history project. Yesterday, I went to West Hill and interviewed an old man there.

Amy:

Is he living in West Hill?

Sandy:

Yes, he is. He's Mr.Hu. I met him in the park. He was playing chess with a group of old men there. They never looked away from the ^(l) ________ when they were playing.

Amy:

Is Mr.Hu ⁽²⁾ ________?

Sandy:

Yes, but his wife died many years ago. He's very ⁽³⁾ ________ flow because his on1y son has moved to Toronto. He was a ⁽⁴⁾ ________ in the past but now he sells ⁽⁵⁾ ________ in tl1e street.

Amy:

Why didn’t he go with his son?

Sandy:

He ⁽⁶⁾ ________ (likes) the weather in Toronto. He said it's too ⁽⁷⁾ ________ (hot) for him and it snows in winter.

Amy:

I agree. And life is ⁽⁸⁾ ________ (same) there, too.

Sandy:

Many old people have similar problems. Their children move away but they stay in the old area.

Amy:

Some stay there because their children don’t want to live with them. These ⁽⁹⁾ _________ (old) people are quite irresponsible. I won’t do that to my parents.

Sandy:

I won’t, either. It's very ⁽¹⁰⁾ ________ (kind).

Amy:

But sometimes young people want to live with their parents. It's just that their parents are ⁽¹¹⁾ ________ (sad) when they're by themselves. They don’t want to leave their old houses.

Sandy:

Yes, you're right. My grandma doesn’t want to live with us because it's ⁽¹²⁾ ________ (possible) for her to see her ⁽¹³⁾ ________(new) friends often. She'll ⁽¹⁴⁾ ________ them if she stays with us.

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Hearst Castle is in California, America. A person called William Randolph Hearst built it between 1922 and 1939, at a cost of more than $30 million. Last year, I had a trip to that castle.
I spent the whole day looking around. But there was much to see, and a day wasn’t enough. Hearst Castle has four houses. The main house, “Casa Grande”, is the biggest one. Visitors can live in the other three ones. Many of them are Hollywood film stars, and they often come to the parties there.
At Hearst Castle, there are also beautiful gardens and two swimming pools, one inside and a larger one outside. I loved the one outside, the “Neptune Pool”. It was a pity that we couldn’t go swimming there!
The guide told us that Mr. Hearst travelled around Europe with his mother at the age of ten and looked at paintings and castles. He never forgot that tour and wanted his house to look like a castle. When Mr Hearst died in 1951, his family gave Hearst Castle to the people of California. Now it’s a museum.

1.
The underlined word “Castle” in the first paragraph means _____.
1. A.
  城堡
2. B.
  胜地
3. C.
  城垛
4. D.
  楼阁
2.
“Casa Grande” is _____ the other three ones at Hearst Castle.
1. A.
  younger than
2. B.
  bigger than
3. C.
  older than
4. D.
  smaller than
3.
There are _____ at Hearst Castle.
1. A.
  beautiful gardens
2. B.
  one swimming pool inside
3. C.
  one swimming pool outside
4. D.
  all the above
4.
_____ made Mr. Hearst build this wonderful castle.
1. A.
  A tour around Europe
2. B.
  The paintings and castles in Europe
3. C.
  His mother
4. D.
  His dream
5.
Which of the following sentences is TRUE?
1. A.
  Hearst Castle in California was cheap to build.
2. B.
  Hearst Castle is on a mountain near the sea.
3. C.
  Many Hollywood film stars come to Hearst’s parties.
4. D.
  After Mr. Hearst died, his family lived at Hearst Castle.

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I can’t find the book about famous sportsmen ____ I borrowed from the library yesterday.

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

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The underlined word “Castle” in the first paragraph means _____.

“Casa Grande” is _____ the other three ones at Hearst Castle.

There are _____ at Hearst Castle.

_____ made Mr. Hearst build this wonderful castle.

Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

I can’t find the book about famous sportsmen ____ I borrowed from the library yesterday.

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