| although , call, first, go riding, in different shapes , inside , real , relax, town , watch | |||
| 1. first 2. really 3. town 4. went riding 5. called 6. in different shapes 7.watch 8. although 9. inside 10. relaxed | |||
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| In the busy working time most people are busy working or studying from Monday to Friday, but in the evenings and weekends they are free and 1 themselves. Some watch television or go to the movies, others 2 sports. This is decided by their own 3 . There are many different ways to spend our 4 time. Almost everyone has some kind of 5 it may be something from collecting stamps to 6 model planes. Some hobbies are very 7 , but others don"t cost anything at all. Some collections are worth 8 of money, others are valuable only to their owners. I know a man who has a coin collection worth several 9 dollars. A short time ago he bought a rare fifty-cent piece which 10 him $ 250! He was very happy about this collection and thought the price was all right. On the other hand, my youngest brother collects match boxes. He has almost 600 of them, but I wonder 11 they are worth any money. However, 12 my brother they are quite valuable. 13 makes him happier than to find a new match box for his collection. That"s what a hobby means, I think. It is something we 14 to do in our free time just for the 15 of it. The value in dollars is not important, but the pleasure it gives us is. | |||
| ( )1. A. love ( )2. A. look like ( )3. A. lives ( )4. A. working ( )5. A. hobby ( )6. A. make ( )7. A. interesting ( )8. A. a little ( )9. A. thousand ( )10. A. paid ( )11. A. that ( )12. A. to ( )13. A. Everything ( )14. A. have ( )15. A. money | B. work B. take care of B. interests B. free B. thing B. making B. exciting B. a few B. thousands B. cost B. if B. on B. Anything B. need B. work | C. enjoy C. think about C. jobs C. own C. job C. makes C. cheap C. a lot C. thousands of C. took. C. what C. with C. Nothing C. refuse C. fun | D. play D. take part in D. things D. whole D. way D. made D. expensive D. a number D. thousand of D. spent D. why D. in D. Something D. like D. time |
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| Now we have comfortable buses in New York. I would like to describe to you how comfortable they are. The number of the seats on a bus has been reduced from 44 to 19. In the beginning, they just changed the normal seats to airplane seats and took off 10 seats on the bus. However, every passenger (乘客) wanted to have a more comfortable seat on the bus when he took long distance trips by bus. Also, the bus manager wanted to get more profits (利润), so they changed the airplane seats to sofas, -and the number of the seats becomes 19. The new buses are coming out, but the prices are going up too. The owners have many ideas which you have probably never thought about before. Now they have bus attendants (服务员) who serve water, snacks, newspapers and towels. Also, you can change the direction of the sofas so that you can feel more comfortable, and they have a service bell on each sofa. Moreover (而且), some companies play some videos on the bus. In addition, when you take a long distance trip, they provide luxurious buses that have an LCD (液晶 显示器) on each seat. That is not the only surprising thing on the bus-they also have three different video channels, and seventy TV games for killing time when you are on the bus. In a word, we want to be more comfortable when we are on a trip. That is the reason why we have sofas on the buses. Maybe we will have beds on the buses in the future. | |||
| 1. How many seats did they take off in the beginning? | |||
| A. 44. B. 19. C. 10. D. 34. | |||
| 2. What does the word "luxurious" mean in the passage? | |||
| A. 豪华的 B. 坚固的 C. 明亮的 D. 宽敞的 | |||
| 3. They provide TV programs and games on the bus to _______. | |||
| A. cut the price of the bus B. make the trip not boring C. get people interested in driving D. let the passengers know the latest news | |||
| 4. What would be the best title for this passage? | |||
| A. Fewer Seats, More Bus Fares B. A Comfortable Long Distance Trip C. Buses, a Usable (可用的) Form of Traveling D. Comfortable Bus Seats Make Travel Life Good | |||
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| Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can heat water, warm your houses, give light, and cook food. But fire can burn things, too. It can burn trees, .houses, animals, or people. Sometimes big fires can burn forests. Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting, old stories about the first time a man or woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope and brought fire down. Today people know how to make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can burn a piece of paper, and then it might burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast. Fires kill many people every year. So you must be careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they"ll die. There is oxygen in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or in an emergency, with your coat or something else. This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it. Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you. | |||
| 1.Which of the following is true? | |||
| A. We are not sure how people started to use fire. B. It is an Australian who started a fire. C. We know how people began to use fire. D. Nobody knows how to make a fire. | |||
| 2. Children mustn"t play with matches because ______. | |||
| A. matches bum paper B. it is not interesting C. matches can be dangerous D. they don"t know how to make a fire with matches | |||
| 3. If you are going to put out a fire, you ______. | |||
| A. must be careful with matches B. ought to know it can be harmful C. have to cover it with water only D. should keep air away from it | |||
| 4. We must be careful with fire, or it ______. | |||
| A. can die B. warms our houses C. might burn us D. will help us | |||
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| Solar energy (power from the sun) is of many uses. In many parts of the world, people are building solar houses with large numbers of windows to collect the heat of the sun. Solar collectors can make hot water from sunlight. The rays of the sun heat water in a solar collector, and the hot water goes into a storage tank (蓄水箱). People can use the hot water for washing or for heating their houses. In the future, people may use the rays of the sun to make electricity for their homes. They will use photovoltaic cells to make electricity from sunlight. The sun is an important "new" source of energy. It is less expensive than oil or nuclear energy. Furthermore, it does not cause pollution, and it is not as dangerous as nuclear power. Many people think that solar energy will be the answer to our future energy problems. | |||
| 1. What is the source of solar energy? | |||
| A. The earth. B. Oil. C. The sun. D. Nuclear energy. | |||
| 2. A solar collector can ______. | |||
| A. answer our future energy problems B. make electricity from sunlight C. use hot water for washing D. make hot water from sunlight | |||
| 3. Solar energy may solve ______. | |||
| A. water shortages B. storage problems C. future energy problems D. future water problems | |||
| 4. People may use the hot water from a solar collector ______. | |||
| A. for nuclear power B. for washing and heating C. to cause pollution D. to change sunlight into electricity | |||
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| One of nature"s most remarkable effects is the mirage. Mirrages occur when there is a great difference in temperature between one layer of air in the atmosphere and the next. On a hot day, light rays from the sky. hit the unusually hot air just above pavement or sand. These rays bend and then continue horizontally along the line of vision, giving the illusion that a body of water lies ahead. Sometimes sailors in northern seas observe ships or icebergs seemingly hanging upside down in the sky. In this case, the warmer air lies above cooler, denser air. The warm air above reflects the image of the distant ship or iceberg, even when the same object is not seen directly because of atmospheric density. Between the coast of Italy and the island of Sicily lies the Strait of Messina. For centuries sailors have seen there the mirage of a whole city; this mirage is known as the fatal marriage (命运注定的婚姻). Scientists believe that some of the flying saucers that have been reported in many parts of the United States were actually mirages. When light rays are reflected at night by the warm air above the earth, the mirage of a lighted object appears in the sky. | |||
| 1. The body of water seen ahead while driving on a hot day is a ______. | |||
| A. body of water B. reflection of light rays from the sky C. reflection of a body of water D. reflection of sand | |||
| 2. Sailors in northern seas have observed mirages of ______. | |||
| A. bodies of water B. flying saucers C. ships or icebergs ahead D. ships or icebergs upside down in the sky | |||
| 3. Scientists believe that mirages can give a reason for ______. | |||
| A. none of the flying saucer reports B. some of the flying saucer reports C. most of the flying saucer reports D. all of the flying saucer reports | |||