1 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空。

Today let’s talk something about weather. In     1     (we) country, different places have different weather. In Harbin, the weather is always very cold in winter.     2     in Hainan, the weather is very warm in winter and it is also very hot in summer. The weather in Kunming is very good all     3     time. You can visit it at     4     (some) time.

In London, the weather changes (改变) very often. You can see a     5     (sun) day in the morning, but then a rainy or a cloudy day one or two     6     (hour) later. People often     7     (talk) about the weather there. They often talk to you, “If you don’t like the weather, it doesn’t matter. Just wait! It will change     8     a minute.”

        Now people are able     9     (do) many things about weather. It’s called man-made weather. We     10     (wish) one day we can decide (决定) the weather.

2 . 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式。

Mike is a 12-year-old boy. He comes from New York. He is in Class 3, Grade 7. Mr. Black is his teacher. He is     1     good teacher. All the students in     2     (he) class like him very much. There are forty     3     (student) in the class. You can see forty desks, forty chairs and a     4     (teacher) desk in the classroom. A lost and found box is     5     the desk. There     6     (be) a lot of things in it.

The students are in the classroom now. Betty is looking for her crayons,     7     she can’t find them in her bag. Tony is looking for his watch. It’s a nice watch. Jim is     8     (read) an interesting book.

Look! Mr. Black is coming in. He     9     (say) to the class, “Good morning, class. There are a lot of things in the lost and found box. Please be careful with your things from now on.” Betty and Tony are really happy     10     (find) their lost things in the lost and found box.

3 . Times have changed, but falling asleep in class is still a common occurrence (常事) among students.

Why do students sometimes fall asleep in class? An obvious reason is lack of sleep. However, there are also causes for getting too little sleep.

Homework is a daily occurrence for most students, one that can take three to four hours per night. A student who wants to be able to take part in any activity besides homework must stay up late to fit everything in. Club activities, sports, computer-game playing, and TV viewing, for example, all make students have less time for both homework and sleep. Sometimes students lack sleep because of after-school jobs for their families.

Physical problems can also cause students to fall asleep in class. For example, insomnia (失眠), which may keep a student up at night, causing exhaustion (疲惫不堪) during class hours, is a serious problem. Medical evidence also supports the idea that each person has a body clock that helps to decide his or her sleep pattern. Unluckily, these body clocks don’t always work according to school timetables.

The effects of falling asleep in class can be quite serious. First of all, sleeping in class is not a good way to endear (使受喜爱) yourself to teachers. And other students may make jokes about those who sleep in class. However, the most harmful effect of sleeping in class is missing out on important points. In the long run, sleepers may end up failing classes.

Since students are probably not going to deal with the problem, falling asleep in class will probably remain an all-too-common occurrence. It will continue until more teens find a way to balance their personal and social lives with school and work on their own, while still finding enough time to sleep.

Introduction	Times have changed, but falling asleep in class happens     1    .
Causes	Lack of sleep ◆To     2     doing their homework, students may have to work three to four hours every night. ◆To take part in     3     and finish homework, students may stay up late. ◆To spare time for after-school jobs, students may not have     4     time to sleep. Physical problems ◆Insomnia may     5     students from falling asleep at night. ◆Students’ body clocks do not always     6     their school timetables.
Effects	◆Teachers will not     7     the students who sleep in class. ◆It is     8     that students will laugh at those who sleep in class. ◆Students who sleep too much in class may     9     in their study.
Conclusion	The problem will not be solved until students     10     can manage their lives, deal with their| school and work, and then still have time to sleep.

4 .

Which animals are smart? Your answer may be dogs, monkeys or elephants. Now there is one more animal that can be added to the list: sheep.

Scientists from Cambridge University said that sheep could be trained to identify human faces. Before testing, scientists let the sheep take a look at pictures of four famous people, including Barack Obama. Then the sheep went into a room with two computer screens. One screen showed a famous person. The sheep always walked toward the screen with the correct faces.

After discovering the sheep’s ability to recognize famous people, researchers gave them a new task. They wanted to see whether these farm animals could correctly identify the same people from different angles (角度). To their surprise, the sheep were still able to identify them, though they were a bit slower than before. Finally, the researchers wanted to know if the sheep could identify their trainers from a photo. As a result, the sheep could do this without any training.

The results show that the sheep’s face-recognition abilities are similar to those of monkeys and humans.

Face recognition is very difficult, but sheep have big brains. The researchers said it might be interesting in the future to find out whether sheep can identify different facial expressions made by humans.

1. According to the passage, sheep could ________ after being trained.

A．sing and dance to music	B．become smart like monkeys
C．look for farm animals	D．work on computer screens

2. What does the underlined word “identify” probably mean in Chinese?

A．识别

B．模仿

C．了解

D．逃避

3. It was a bit ________ for sheep to identify the same people from different angles than before.

A．faster

B．easier

C．slower

D．nicer

5 .

Our school’s science festival just ended a few days ago. What interested me most was the car we made. It was made out of corrugated cardboard (硬纸板), but could still hold a person, as well as move.

We were excited about this idea, but we found it hard to make the car. It seemed impossible for a cardboard car to carry someone. Our physics teacher showed us a video. There was some corrugated cardboard shaped like a “V” or “W” in the video. It could hold more weight. This gave us the idea to make the car after getting the proper materials.

Because there was not much time left for us, we ha to finish it as quickly as possible. We talked about how the car should be made and how to test it. I was glad that we were able to work closely with each other. Everyone saw the work as an interesting way to relax. When the car was finally finished, we all wore a smile on our face and found that all our work had been worth it, even after spending whole afternoons working on it.

We joined the competition after we finished the car. Though we didn’t win any prizes, we found something more meaningful than success. We learned new things about physics and learned how to get along with each other.

1. The car was made out of ________.

A．thick stone

B．special glass

C．strong wood

D．corrugated cardboard

2. The writer’s ________ teacher showed them a video to help them make the car.

A．maths

B．history

C．physics

D．English

3. The writer was glad that they were able to ________.

A．win the prizes successfully	B．work closely with each other
C．joined the competition together	D．find an interesting way to relax

6 . Have you ever asked your relatives or friends if there is Wi-Fi in their houses? Have you ever ________ Wi-Fi when you at restaurants or hotels? The answers will probably be “Yes”, Most of us ________ Wi-Fi everywhere as if we can’t live without it. But we can only use free Wi-Fi in some ________ places like hotels and movie theaters. We still have to spend some money ________ the Internet at most time. Here comes a piece of good news.

A very big company called Super Media has decided to ________ the way of online model completely by giving free Wi-Fi to every person on Earth. They have ________ hundreds of satellites into space and more in the future. They made their decision for several ________.

One is because they have made a ________ and found that only 60% of the world’s population have been able to get connected on the Internet. Another is because many countries are unable to ________ the necessary service to connect the website for their people.

We can expect to use ________ Wi-Fi everywhere in the near future. Technology will serve more and better.

1.

A．turned down

B．pointed out

C．searched for

D．called off

2.

A．produce

B．want

C．repair

D．waste

3.

A．public

B．personal

C．noisy

D．wild

4.

A．avoiding

B．breaking

C．connecting .

D．recording

5.

A．protect

B．increase

C．shut

D．change

6.

A．returned

B．sent

C．burnt

D．dropped

7.

A．reasons

B．rules

C．standards

D．levels

8.

A．survey

B．mark

C．mistake

D．decision

9.

A．pick

B．cancel

C．imagine

D．offer

10.

A．free

B．traditional

C．secret

D．weak

7 .

Can dolphins talk? Maybe they can’t talk with _______, but they talk with sounds.

Dolphins travel in a group. We call a group of fish a “ _______”. They don’t study but they travel together.

Dolphins talk to _______ dolphins in the school. They give information. They talk when they are happy or sad or afraid. They say “welcome” _______ a dolphin comes back to the school. They talk when they play.

They make _______ sounds above water. They make many more sounds under water. People cannot hear these sounds because they are very very high. Scientists make tapes of the sounds and study _______.

Sometimes people catch a dolphin for a large aquarium (水族馆). People _______ the dolphins in a show. Dolphins don’t like to be _______ from their school. In the aquarium they are _______ and lonely. Dolphin meat is good but people don’t like to ________ them. They say that dolphins bring good luck.

Many people believe this.

1.

A．action

B．words

C．music

D．songs

2.

A．school

B．class

C．kind

D．world

3.

A．others

B．another

C．other

D．any other

4.

A．before

B．when

C．because

D．if

5.

A．a few

B．few

C．a little

D．little

6.

A．it

B．them

C．one

D．ones

7.

A．watch

B．see

C．look at

D．read

8.

A．back

B．down

C．away

D．outside

9.

A．terrible

B．scary

C．lazy

D．sad

10.

A．cut

B．save

C．kill

D．help

9 . I was not a confident person before. That’s because I was ________ and others often laughed at me. So I became very shy. I was scared to say hello to strangers, ________ I had to hang out (逛街) alone. I was afraid to ask simple questions and speak aloud in front of others. It seemed that I felt afraid ________ everything in my life. I used to believe that I would be like this all my life.

But one day, my friend Paul’s words changed my mind. He ________ me to change myself. He said, “If you can give it a try, you still have a chance to make a change. But if you ________ try, your life is only going to get worse.” I was very excited by what he said: ________, I had nothing to lose. Why not have a try?

The first thing I did was to lose weight. I had a ________ diet and did exercise every day. After six months, I lost ninety pounds. This taught me that I could change myself.

A few months later, I heard about a ________ competition at my university. I plucked up the courage (鼓起勇气) to sign up for the competition. For the first time, I was able to ________ my story and speak aloud in front of lots of people.

After the competition, I made a to-do list and started changing in a very short time. I tried my best to ________ the things on the list one by one. When working on them, I became more and more confident.

1.

A．tall

B．short

C．fat

D．thin

2.

A．so

B．even

C．though

D．because

3.

A．of

B．at

C．to

D．in

4.

A．created

B．avoided

C．satisfied

D．encouraged

5.

A．often

B．never

C．always

D．sometimes

6.

A．After all

B．In all

C．Above all

D．At all

7.

A．strict

B．common

C．whole

D．usual

8.

A．singing

B．speech

C．dancing

D．guessing

9.

A．say

B．speak

C．talk

D．tell

10.

A．explain

B．spread

C．finish

D．regret