阅读短文，选择正确答案。 Look at the center circles of Diagram (图)A and Diagram B.

Which of the centre circles looks larger?
Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B.
In fact , they are exactly the same size.
Then look at the picture on the right. What do you see? A vase? Or two faces?

Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never
see them at the same time.
     "What"s happening? Is something wrong with my eyes?" You may wonder at what you see. Don"t worry.
Here is how it goes:
     When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret (解读) the
information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that
our eyes are playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it "Visual illusion" (视觉错误).
     Movie makers often make use of illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than
usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies
Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk the kids just make use of illusions. 1. The centre circle in Diagram A looks smaller than that in Diagram B. That"s because            . [     ]
A. something is wrong with our eyes
B. the two circles are not the same size
C. our brains interpret the information in a wrong way
D. the two pictures change quickly from one to the other 2. What"s the right order according to the passage?
    a. We look at things with our eyes.              b. Our brains interpret the messages.
    c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.      d. Our eyes send messages to our brains. [     ]
A. adbc
B. cabd
C. acdb
D. bcad 3. Movie makers make use of visual illusions to             . [     ]
A. help the actors look better
B. make the actors much braver
C. help the actors become stronger
D. make the actors seem different in size 4. In the picture on the right, it seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact

Line AB is as long as Line CD. Which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes? [ ]
A. The second one.
B. The third one.
C. The fifth one.
D. The sixth one. 5. The text is probably taken from . [ ]
A. an advertisement
B. a science book
C. a movie magazine
D. a story book

1-5: CADCB

完形填空。     How can you think in English? I think the best way is to practise as what a football player   1 every day.
During the 2 the football player will pass the ball to his teammates over and over again. So he won"t have to
3   passing the ball in the game; he will just do it.
    You can train yourself   4 in English this way. The first step is to think of the words that you use daily,
simple everyday words   5 book or shoe or tree. For example, whenever you see a "book", you should think
of it in English instead of in your mother language.
    After you   6 to think of several words in English, then move on to the next step-thinking in sentences.
Listening and repeating is a very useful way to learn 7 . Listen first and don"t care too much about   8 you
fully understand what you"re hearing. Try to repeat what you hear. The more you listen, the   9 you learn. After
you reach a higher level, 10 having conversations with yourself in English. This will lead you to think in
English.

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(     ) 1. A. do
(    ) 2. A. practice
(    ) 3. A. think about
(   ) 4. A. to thinking
(    ) 5. A. in
(     ) 6. A. had learned
(    ) 7. A. the languages
(   ) 8. A. which
(     ) 9. A. harder
(    ) 10. A. remember

B. did
B. game
B. wait for
B. to think
B. about
B. have learned
B. language
B. whether
B. less
B. stop

C. does
C. match
C. give up
C. thinking
C. like
C. learn
C. a languages
C. how
C. later
C. start

D. is doing
D. day
D. look at
D. thinks
D. from
D. are learn
D. a language
D. why
D. more
D. finish

完形填空。

     Oil is so important that it is sometimes called "black gold". Almost half our   1   comes from oil. We use
it to run our cars and factories and to   2   our homes, offices and schools. Many everyday things are made
from oil. Your shirt may have oil in the material. The soap you   3   your hands with might also be made from
oil. Children"s plastic toys are made from oil.
     Oil is   4   to find, because it is trapped (陷入) deep under the earth. Today, however, we have many   5
to find oil. One tool measures (测量) the pull of gravity (吸力). Places where gravity is weaker are more
likely (很可能) to have oil.   6   tool measures sound waves (波). Sound waves   7   through different kinds
of rocks at different   8   . We can use them to find the reeks that have oil in them.
     We need   9   oil. and we are using up the oil wells (井) we know about.  10  we must find new ways of
looking for this "black gold". Can you do anything for it?

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(     )1. A. courage
(     )2. A. design
(   )3. A. wash
(    )4. A. easy
(    )5. A. ways
(    )6. A. One
(    )7. A. keep
(    )8. A. speeds
(     )9. A. little
(     )10. A. Or

B. energy
B. protect
B. injure
B. important
B. things
B. Other
B. include
B. places
B. a lot of
B. But

C. things
C. heat
C. save
C. interesting
C. news
C. Another
C. control
C. directions
C. a little
C. So

D. business
D. make
D. touch
D. hard
D. varieties
D. The other
D. travel
D. situations
D. a few
D. So that

阅读理解。

     Why do plants grow in some places and not in others? Why does some land have so much growing on it,
while other land has almost no plants growing on it at all.
     To grow, plants need several things. One is warmth. In very cold places almost nothing grows. Plants also
need water. In very dry parts of the Earth only a few unusual plants can grow. That"s why dry deserts
everywhere are almost not covered by trees or grass.
     Plants must also have a place in which to put down their roots and grow. They find it difficult to grow on
hard land. The town is built on hard land. The plants here can only grow in the soil between the cracks (缝隙)
of the stones.
     Another thing plants must have before they can grow is food.
     What will happen if we try to make things grow on the sandy beach? A few plants, such as beach grass,
will grow in sand, but most plants won"t. Even if the weather is warm enough and we water the plants each
day, many of them will die because the sand on this beach has almost no food for plants.

1. Plants can grow ______.

[ ]

A. nowhere
B. somewhere
C. anywhere
D. everywhere

2. The passage tells us that plants need things to grow.

[ ]

A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five

3. Plants like to grow in soil.

[ ]

A. dry
B. hard
C. soft
D. hot

4. From the passage, we can know most of the plants aren"t able to grow on the sandy beach
because ______.

[ ]

A. the soil is too poor
B. there is too much water
C. sunshine is not enough
D. sunlight is too strong

5. Maybe the passage can be found in a _____ book.

[ ]

A. travel
B. history
C. physics
D. science

完形填空。

    The hippopotamus, or hippo, lives in the hot part of Africa.   1   humans, dogs, and whales, it is a
mammal (哺乳动物). That is, its babies are   2   alive, and they drink milk from the mother"s body.
    The hippopotamus is a   3   grey animal with a big head and mouth. It   4   four tons, or about 4,000
kilograms. Its stomach is seven meters long, and it eats only plants. It is a mammal, but it   5   a lot of
time in the water.
     During the   6  , it sleeps beside a river or a lake. Sometimes it wakes up. Then it goes under the
water to get some   7   for food and never catches fish or hunts other animals. It can close its nose and
stay   8   water for ten minutes. Its ears, eyes, and nose are high up on its head. It can stay with its body
under the water and only its ears, eyes, and nose above the water. Then it can breathe the air.
    At night, the hippo walks on the nearby land and looks for food. It never goes very   9   the water.
    A baby hippo often stands on its mother"s  10  -the part of the body between the neck and legs. The
mother looks for food underwater. The baby rides with a sure footing on her mother above the water.

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