根据下列短文内容，在短文后的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。 Big schoolbags have been a serious pro

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根据下列短文内容，在短文后的空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。       Big schoolbags have been a serious problem for students   1 a long time. Maybe your schoolbags is too
2 to carry, and it troubles you a lot when you want to find a book out to read. Now an e-textbook will   3
you.
        4   is said that e-textbooks are going to be used in Chinese middle schools. An e-textbook , in fact, is a
small computer. It is much lighter than a usual schoolbag and easy to carry.   5 it is as small as a book, it can
hold all the materials. The students can read the text page by page   6 the screen,   7 notes with the pointer
(屏写笔). And even "hand in" their   8 to their teachers by sending-emails.
      Some people say e-textbooks are good, but some say they may be   9 for the students" eyes.   10 do you
think of it?
1.                 2.                 3.                   4.                 5.
6.                 7.                 8.                   9.                 10.

答案

1. for 2. heavy 3. help 4. It 5. Though / Alough 6. on 7. take 8. homework 9. bad 10. What

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阅读与表达。    November 24, 1859 was a special day in London. On the day, many Londoners rushed to a bookstore
to buy a book that was just published. The first printing of 1,250 copies sold out on the first day.
    The popular book was The origin of Species (《物种起源》) by British naturalist Charles Darwin
(1809-1882). In the book, Darwin argued that different forms of life could change over time because of
natural selection. This means that only those who are best suited to their environment will live and reproduce.
Darwin supported his arguments with examples he found during his around-the-world trip in the 1830s.
    The book laid the foundation of modern biology. It changed how other scientists understood the
appearance of life on Earth.
    A hundred and fifty years later, Darwin"s theory (理论) of natural selection still has great influence in
the world of science. But some people have a question: since medicine and modern life have made people
healthier, are we still evolving (进化) by natural selection?
   The answer is yes, according to Stephen Sterns and his team of Yale University researchers. They did
a study on 2,238 women in the US. They found that shorter, heavier women have more children then
thinner, taller ones. This trend (趋势) runs among their female children and grandchildren. So if this
continues, women in 400 years will be about 2cm shorter and a kilo heavier.
    Sterns" findings are supported by other scientists. For example, John Hawks at the University of
Wisconsin, US and his team believe they have found nearly 2,000 gene variations (基因变异) in modern
humans. Those variations allow people to drink milk, fight disease and improve brain development. 1. Was The origin of Species a popular book?

2. When was the book published?

3. What does natural selection mean?

4. Why does the writer introduce Sterns" findings in the passage?

5. Why is Darwin"s theory of natural selection important?

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阅读理解。    Round eyes, round head, round ears, round body! What is this lovely little animal?
    He looks like a bear. But he is not a bear. He"s a KOALA.
    People in Australia love koala and take care of them. They have set up places for them to live safely. No
one can kill them for their pretty fur (毛片). When a koala is born,he has no fur. And he is not as big as
your little toe (脚趾)! The mother koala has a pocket in the front of her body. The baby goes into this warm
pocket. There he stays for six months.
    When the baby leaves the pocket, he has much fur. And he is about as big as your shoe. He climbs to his
mother"s back. He rides there while she teaches him how to find food. Mrs. Koala is a loving mother. She
takes good care of her baby. But when he is bad, she beats him! The baby cries just as a small child does.
If he keeps on crying, his mother beats him again. When he stops crying, she takes him in her arms. And
then they both go to sleep for a while.
    The koala could not live without a special kind of tree. The tree gives him both his home and his food.
For most of the day the koala sleeps in the tree.
    At night the koala looks for food. He may go miles to find it. He likes only the bark (树皮) and the leaves
of the tree. He eats nothing else. And he eats more than two pounds each night!
    How lovely the koalas really are! 1.People in Australia ______. [     ]
A.keep koalas in their home
B.put koala in the tree
C.set up places for koalas to live safely
D.raise baby koalas in their pockets 2.After his born, the baby koala lives in his mother"s pocket ______. [     ]
A.for six days
B.for six months
C.for a night
D.all his life 3.What does the mother koala usually do when her baby is bad? [     ]
A.She takes him in her pocket.
B.She keeps him on her back.
C.She makes him cry.
D.She beats him. 4.Koalas cannot live without a special kind of tree because ______. [     ]
A.they have to keep cool under the tree
B.they eat the fruit on the tree
C.they stay in the tree all the time
D.they live in the tree and get food from it 5.What is the text mainly about? [     ]
A.How people in Australia protect koalas.
B.Lovely koalas in Australia.
C.Koalas cannot live without a special kind of tree.
D.The way mother koalas take care of their babies.

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阅读理解。     HAVE you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours though it is about 40,000
kilometers? Now, maybe you can. Last Saturday, the American X-43A airplane made its first flight. It
reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers an hour. This makes it the fastest plane in the world. X-43A is only
three to four meters long,but it"s very heavy: it weights 1,270 kilos.
     HOW old cart an insect be? 400 million years! Last Wednesday, scientists found the world"s oldest insect
fossil (化石) in Britain. The fossil shows that the body of the insect was as big as a piece of rice and had
wings (翅膀). In the past, people thought the earliest insect was 380 million years old.
    THERE will be a new "star" in the sky soon. China plans to send a satellite (卫星) into space by September
2009. It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures. It must be very
expensive, right? That"s for sure-1.4 billion yuan!
    Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻), won the World Food Prize on Monday. Yuan
developed the world"s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice. Hybrid rice plants can make more rice
than the ones people grew before. 1.If the X-43A goes round the earth, it will take about ______ hours to finish the trip. [     ]
A.3
B.5
C.8
D.12 2.The newly-found insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was ______ years older than believed. [     ]
A.10 million
B.400 million
C.20 million
D.380 million 3.Which of the following about the new star is NOT true? [     ]
A.It will go into space by September 2008.
B.It will stay in space for twelve months.
C.It costs a lot.
D.It will go around the moon. 4.Yuan Longping won the World"s Food Prize because he ______. [     ]
A.is the father of his children.
B.likes to eat hybrid rice.
C.developed the world"s first popular and widely grown hybrid rice.
D.grows more rice than others. 5.The above paragraphs are taken from ______. [     ]
A.a story
B.an advertisement
C.an explaining writing
D.a newspaper

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完型填空。      There is good news for the children in the countryside. We may still remember the girl   1 big eyes. Her big
eyes are   2 us her dream: I wish to 3 ! In China, there are still   4 girls and boys like her. They want to go
to school, but their   5 are too poor. If the family has two or three children, it is harder to   6 the money for all
the children. So the parents often ask   7 to stay at home, and boys to go to school.
      Now they needn"t   8 the money. From 2006 on, children can go to school for free in some poor places.
They don"t have to pay for books and other things. Some of them can even get money from the government to
make their life 9 . Soon, all the children in the countryside can go to school for free. All families are very happy
with the news. It is   10 great.

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(     ) 1. A. with
(     ) 2. A. saying
(     ) 3. A. go to work
(     ) 4. A. a lot
(     ) 5. A. schools
(     ) 6. A. pay
(     ) 7. A. teachers
(     ) 8. A. look up
(     ) 9. A. better
(     ) 10. A. not

B. on
B. telling
B. go to bed
B. lot of
B. cities
B. take
B. girls
B. turn on
B. shorter
B. never

C. to
C. speaking
C. go to school
C. a lot of
C. houses
C. buy
C. boys
C. worry about
C. longer
C. hardly

D. in
D. talking
D. go home
D. much
D. families
D. lend
D. all the children
D. make sure
D. worse
D. really

完形填空。

    Big schoolbags have been a serious problem for students for a long time. Maybe your schoolbag is too
  1   to carry, and it troubles you a lot   2   you want to find a book out to read. Now an e-textbook will
  3   you.
    It is said that e-textbooks are going to be   4   in Chinese middle schools. An e-textbook, in fact, is a
small   5   for students. It is much   6   than a usual schoolbag and easy to carry. Though it is as small as
a book, it can   7   all the materials (材料) for study. The students can read the text page by page on the
  8 , take notes with the pointer (屏写笔), or even "   9 " their homework to their teachers by sending
e-mails. All they have to do is to press a button.
    Some people say e-textbooks are good, but some say they may be  10  for the students" eyes. What
do you think of it?

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