A new world champion（冠军）has been born. After his 18th birthday, Ding Junhui b 1 Stephen Hendry, a seven-time world champion, and won first prize at last. This was the first time a C 2 has won a major snooker（斯诺克）champion.

s 4 to play snooker at the age of eight. By the time he was 10, n 5 in the city could play better than him. Then his father wanted to let Ding make snooker his career（职业）. Two years l 6 , his family moved to Dongguan of Guangdong, a city n 7 Hong Kong, where snooker is more p 8 To help him, the family sold e 9 , even their small house. Luckily, Ding has been successful and the p 10 of the Chinese people now. Ding has created（创造）history.

阅读理解

阅读下列短文，并做后面的题目，从四个选项中。选出能回答所提问或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

　　　Is your name William? If so, you have friends.After John, William is the most popular boy's mane in English, History（历史）is full of William . There's William of Normandy, who conquered（征服）English in 1066. There's a writer, William Shakespeare. There's William Coby a hero （英雄） of the west , He's better known as Buffalo Bill.

　　　There’s a name, Frances, It isn't so popular . But it's just as interesting. It means free woman. One of the first women named Frances lived long ago in Rome.She was a very good person.

　　　The song“Frankie Frankie and Johnny” tells of another Frances. She wasn't good. This Frances, nicknamed （以绰号称呼）Frankie, took a gun and shot her sweetheart（情人）Johnny because, as the song says, “He was her man, but he done her wrong.”

(1) The most popular name for boys is .

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A．John　　　　　　　B．Frank

C．William　　　　　　D．Bill

(2) In history, William was .

[　　]

A．a conqueror　　　　B．writer

C．a hero　　　　 　　D．all the above

(3) Buffalo Bill was .　　　

[　　]

A． a good man　　   　B． a bad man

C． coby　　　　　　　D． shakespeare

(4) The name of France means .　　　

[　　]

A．lover　　　　　　　B．free woman

C．goodness　　　　　 D．a song

(5) The Frances in the song wasn't good because .　　　

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A．she had a nickname　　　B．she was not kind to others

C．she killed her lover　　 　D．both A and B

阅读短文，判断正（T）误（F）．

　　We are all busy talking about and using the Internet, but do you know the history（历史）of the Internet?

　　The Internet was set up（建立） in the 1960s. At that time, computers were large and expensive. Computer networks didn't work well.

　　At first, the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it, too. However computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start（开始）of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and easier to use. Scientists had also developed software（开发软件）that made“surfing”the Internet easier.

　　Isaac Newton was a great English scientist. He was one of the greatest men in history（历史）. But when he was thinking hard about his work, he often forgot other things.

　　One morning, Newton got up early. He began to work at once． When it was time for breakfast, he was still thinking it hard, so he didn't have breakfast Mary was going to boil the egg for him. But Newton wanted to stay by himself. He said, “You can put the egg on the table I'll boil it.” Mary put the egg beside Newton's watch on the table and came out of the room.

　　An hour later, Mary went to his room again. What did she see? Newton was standing by the pan（平底锅）, having the egg in his hand. He had put the watch in the pan and was boiling it. But he did not know what he was doing.

补全对话（20分）

n     A: Hi, Tom. You were not here yesterday afternoon. What was wrong?

n     B:                                    ( 1)  .

n     A: Sorry to hear that.  __________________________( 2)?

n     B: Much better. The fever is gone. But I still cough and I feel week.

n     A:                                     ( 3)?

n     B: Yes, I did . I went to the doctor’s yesterday afternoon. The doctor gave me some medicine and asked me to stay in bed for a few days.

n     A:                                       （4）       ?

n     B: Because I’m afraid I’ll miss more lessons and I will be left behind.

n     A:Don’tworry.Take good care of yourself.                                          ( 5) .

B: Thank you.