Every school has notice boards. Let"s see what is on the notice board of an Amer

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Every school has notice boards. Let"s see what is on the notice board of an American school.

小题1:From , parents can get information on the parents’ meeting.

A．School Policy	B．Report Card
C．Class Announcement	D．After-school Program

小题2:Report Card shows parents .

A．certain school rules	B．after-school activities
C．plans for classes and tests	D．children"s school life and work.

小题3:If Tony doesn"t do well at school but makes progress, he will get on the Report Card.

A．1

B．2

C．3

D．4

小题4:Students do their homework and read books .

A．from 3:30 to 4:30	B．from 3:30 to 6:00 .
C．from 4:30 to 6:00	D．from 6:00 to 7:00

小题5:According to School Policy, visitors have to __________ when entering the school.

A．hand in a note	B．call at 524-9752
C．check in at the office	D．telephone the school

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:C

解析

试题分析：短文大意：本题主要以表格形式介绍了一所美国学校中的布告栏的内容，主要包括校规，学生报告，课堂公告和课外活动思想内容。
小题1:细节理解题。根据第三则通知中Parents’ Meeting:描述，可知从课堂公告中我们可以得到关于家长会的信息。故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据第二则布告Report card about your school life and work will be given to your parents.描述，可知学生报告将会展示孩子们的学校生活和学习情况。故选D。
小题3:细节理解题。根据第二则学生报告评分标准第四行描述，可知学习成绩没达标，但是取得了进步，得2分。故选B。
小题4:细节理解题。根据第四则布告3:30--4:30 Homework & Reading 描述，可知学生们在3:30到4:30之间读书和做作业。故选A。
小题5:细节理解题。根据第一则布告Parents and visitors need to check in at the office when entering the school.描述，可知参观者在进入学校时，需要先登记。故选C。

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Oil is so important that it is sometimes called “black gold”. Almost half of our energy comes from oil. We use it to run our cars and factories and to heat our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you wash your hands with might also be made from oil. Your favorite plastic toy is made from oil.
Oil is hard to find, because it is trapped deep under the earth. Once the only way people knew there was oil someplace if it leaked（渗漏）out of the ground. Today, however, we have many ways of finding oil. One tool measures（测量）the pull of gravity. Places where gravity is weaker are more likely to have oil. Another tool is sound waves（声波）. Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds. We can use them to find the rocks that have oil in them.
We need a lot of oil, and we are using up the oil wells we know about. Soon we must find new ways of looking for this “black gold”.
小题1:Which of the following isn’t the way to help find oil?

A．Sound waves travel through different kinds of rocks at different speeds.

B．People measure the pull of gravity to know if there is oil.

C．Sound waves tell us where the oil has leaked out of the ground.

D．People know there is oil if it leaks out of the ground.

小题2:Which of the following does the passage lead you to believe?

A．Oil was firstly found by measuring gravity.

B．Many things are made from oil.

C．We will never run out of oil.

D．Our lives would not be different if we didn’t have oil.

小题3:The main idea of the whole story is that ________________.

A．many things are made from oil

B．we must find new ways of looking for oil

C．people spend a lot of time looking for oil

D．oil is important for us but hard to find

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"Here"s the advance payment(预期款) of 10,000 dollars. You will get the other half when we get those papers," the agent told Mike. "But sir, Mr. Smith has been very suspicious (怀疑) since last week," Mike replied.
"In that case, be careful and don"t worry. You are very clever," the agent said." Take 5,000 dollars more," Mike looked around uneasily but took the money.
Mike was a clerk in a large company. A few years ago he started to get very worried because it was very hard for him to support his family. He wanted to give his child an excellent education and a bright future, but the future looked rather hopeless.
One day some agents called him. They were his company"s competitors. At first he refused their offers. But when he thought his dream could come true, he agreed to their offers and began giving them information.
However, his spy work started to get more and more difficult because his owner had become suspicious, since a lot of important information was leaking out.
One night when Mike was on one of his spying tasks, he met Alim, the night watchman." What are you doing here, Mike?" shouted Alim.
"Oh, I had just forgotten some documents here, Alim, "Mike replied, trying to look comfortable." I just came to get them."
"Is that true?" Alim said." We’ll see what Mr. Smith says."
Alim called Mr. Smith and told him to come right away. Mr. Smith looked at Mike and said. "So you are the thief! I believed in you, Mike."
"Call the police, Alim. We have finally caught the spy," Mr. Smith said. "And by the way, Mike ,no man can serve two masters. You should have left if you did not work with us any longer."
小题1:Why did Mike take the job as a spy? Because ______________.

A．he didn"t want to work for his company any longer.

B．some agents forced him to do so.

C．he wanted to give his child an excellent education and bright future.

D．Mr. Smith did not give treat him very well.

小题2:What did the agents ask Mike to do?

A．To give them some important information of his company.

B．To follow his boss secretly.

C．To serve his master very honestly.

D．To leave his company and join them.

小题3:Mr. Smith thought Mike was______ before he knew that Mike was a spy.

A．kind

B．clever

C．honest

D．dishonest

小题4:What"s the meaning of the phrase "leak out" in the passage?___________.

A．land on

B．cross out

C．become known

D．come out

小题5:What can you learn from the passage?______________.

A．We should be careful at work.	B．We should be honest at work.
C．We should work hard.	D．We should serve the masters.

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Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it faced many of the same problems as inner-city schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping enrollment（入学注册）. Then the school’s hard-driving headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home. What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost: $2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”
小题1:The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.

A．show the problems schools are faced with today

B．prove that a school without high enrollment can do well

C．express the importance of computers in modern education

D．tell that laptops can help improve students’ school performance

小题2:According to the writer, students in New York City’s public schools will ______.

A．enjoy e-mail service in the near future

B．make money by selling ads on websites

C．all have their own laptops within nine years

D．become more interested in their studies with laptops

小题3:The underlined word “kinks” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.

A．plans

B．projects

C．problems

D．products

小题4:From the passage we learn that ______.

A．a school Internet portal is the key to a laptop program

B．the laptop program also has a good influence on parents

C．students slowly accept the fact their online activities controlled

D．the laptop program in public school is mainly for the eighth-graders

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“Yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard NASA’s Space Elevator. We’re going to leave soon. The entire ride will take about five hours, so sit back and enjoy the trip. As we rise, be sure to look out the window. You’ll see the sky change from deep blue to black. It is one of the most wonderful views（景色）you will ever see! ”
Does this sound like the Sci-Fi Channel? Well, it’s not. Scientists are thinking that a “space elevator” will be possible toward the end of the 21st century. A space elevator will consist of a long cable (电缆) from the Earth’s surface into space to an altitude(高度) of about 35,786 km. “Elevators” will travel along the cable and move people and loads between Earth and space. One of the greatest advantages is that the cost will be much less. Researchers estimate (估计) that a passenger with baggage at 150 kg might cost only $222! Compare that to today’s cost of around $3.3 million for the same weight. It would make “cheap” space travel possible. Scientists believe carbon nanotubes (纳米管) may be used to make high-strength materials for the cables, although they are still being studied.
It was Arthur C. Clarke who brought this idea to the general public. In his science fiction novel Fountains of Paradise, engineers build a space elevator on top of a mountain peak on an island. One day, Clarke was asked a question by a student during his speech. The student asked when the space elevator would become a reality. Clarke answered, “Probably about 50 years after everybody stops laughing.” He’s got a point. When we stop thinking of something as impossible, then we start working on its development.
小题1:Why should passengers in a space elevator look out the window while they are moving into space?

A．Because the blue sky is very beautiful.

B．Because the view outside is wonderful.

C．Because the sky changes from black to blue.

D．Because the trip will take about seven hours.

小题2:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Scientists haven’t used carbon nanotubes to make the cables.

B．Traveling in space elevators will cost much less in the future.

C．Passengers will be able to travel in space elevators with baggage.

D．Space elevators will travel for 35,786 km around the Earth’s surface.

小题3:What is the best title for this passage?

A．Possible Now: Space Travel	B．Cheap Space Travel
C．Going into Space in an Elevator	D．Space Travel — Impossible

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阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）
“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning to surf the Internet.”
“I check my e-mail almost forty times a day.”
“I seldom spend less than three hours each time on the net.”
“Spend more time in chat rooms than with my real-life friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. According to experts, Internet addicts(迷)spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. They lose control of the time they spend on the Internet.
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried and 1ooked for him everywhere but couldn’t find him. They called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the Internet — for seven days straight.
A study shows that about six to ten percent of Internet users become addicted. The teenagers spend more time on the Internet than with families. That’s why some experts worry most about young people.
Is “surfing the Internet” a hobby or all addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have one of the following symptoms(症状):

★You can’t wait to get online again.
★You go out with your friends less and less.
★You’ve decided to spend a short time online，but then you spend several hours.
★You do not go to important family events or you do not do school projects because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
What is the solution(解决办法)? Some experts suggest that people set strict limits(限制) on their time for Internet use. You have to learn to control it, or the Internet would control you.
小题1:Do Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week?
小题2:Where was the missing college student found?
小题3:Why do some experts worry most about young people?
小题4:How many symptoms are mentioned in the passage?
小题5:What’s the passage mainly about?

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