3 . 阅读下面材料, 在空白处填入适当的词(1个单词)或括号内单词的适当形式。

Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen, who speaks different languages with foreigners while working at a scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her instant fame.

Xu’s village is located at the base of Moon Hill,     1    popular tourist destination famous for a moon-shaped hole at the summit. She     2    (work) as a tour guide and vendor(小贩)in Yangshuo since 1998,     3    the area became popular with foreign backpackers and organized tours.

Xu said she would change words in any language into Chinese characters     4    (base) on their pronunciations and then memorize them. She added that she would repeat the words in her head     5    going to bed and after waking up, because it has given her     6    (fluent) in basic conversations with foreigners.

Over the past two decades, Xu has taught     7    (she) 11 foreign languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In addition to making her     8    (incredible)popular, her great linguistic skill has made it easier for her     9    (communicate) with foreign tourists.

Xu has also become one of the busiest tour guides in Yangshuo,     10    (attract) a large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign visitors, who come to meet the multilingual guide out of admiration.

5 . Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 8th January,1942.He went to school in St. Albans-a small city near London. Although he did well, he was never top of his class. After leaving school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, and then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology(宇宙学). As he himself admitted he wasn’t very serious about studying. He was a very lazy student, and did very little work. However, he still achieved extremely good marks.

Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him at the age of 20. He started to bump into things, and often fell over for no reason. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his father was so worried that he was sent to hospital for a test. Finally, the result came back. Hawking had motor neurone disease(运动神经元病), an incurable illness which causes the muscles of the body to waste away. Doctors said he would die before he was 23.

At first, Hawking became extremely depressed. After a while, though, he began to see his life in a different way. As he later wrote, “Before my illness had been diagnosed(诊断),there had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do.” Hawking married, found a job at Cambridge University, where he worked all his life, and had three children. He also went to do some of the most important scientific research ever carried out.

His story shows that nobody, however bad their situation is, should lose hope. “Life is not fair,” he once said.“You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.”

1. As a university student, Stephen Hawking _________.

A．worked extremely hard	B．studied maths and chemistry
C．was lazy and did very little work	D．only achieved average marks

2. Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him when _________.

A．he visited his family at Christmas time one year

B．he was 20

C．his father made him see a doctor

D．he was sent to hospital for a test

3. What does Hawking’s story tell us arcording to the passage?

A．Never lose hope even if it is a bad situation.

B．No pain, no gain.

C．You never know what will happen in life.

D．Life is full of challenges.

4. What might be the best title of this passage?

A．A Lazy Boy	B．Life Is Fair
C．Motor Neurone Disease	D．Professor Stephen Hawking

6 . Fifty-one years ago, a man took a “small step” on the moon and brought mankind a “giant leap” forward. As the first person to walk on the moon, American astronaut Neil Armstrong is a man whose name will be remembered for generations to come.

But being the first is never easy. With so many unknowns about space at that time, Armstrong himself was surprised that Apollo11 actually worked. He thought he and his partners had only a 50 percent chance of a successful landing back in 1969.

It was tough indeed. When the lunar module (登月舱) was approaching the moon's surface, the computer wanted to rest them on a steep slope covered with rocks, but Armstrong realized it was an unsafe place to stop.

As a last minute decision, he safely landed the lunar module by himself. When they finally touched the ground, “there was something like 20 seconds of fuel left,” he said in an interview.

Unfortunately, some people doubted his visit to the moon, saying it was faked. But Armstrong responded with a chuckle (轻声笑), saying: “It was never a concern to me because I knew one day, somebody was going to go fly back up there and pick up that camera I left. ”

For all his global fame, Neil Armstrong is a remarkably modest man. He rarely gave interviews and didn't like talking about his achievement. He stopped giving his signatures when he found that people sold them for thousands of dollars.

“I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger (记账簿) of our daily work, Armstrong said in a CBS interview in 2005. W hen asked how he felt knowing his footprints would be likely to stay on the moon's surface for thousands o[ years, he said: “I kind of hope that somebody goes up there one of these days and cleans them up.”

Armstrong passed away at the age of 82 in 2012, but he will be remembered. “The next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink (眨眼),” his family said to Reuters.

1. It can be inferred from the article that before his expedition to the moon, Armstrong ________.

A．was certain that Apollo 11 would work well

B．believed the lunar module would land safely on the moon

C．had prepared himself to face possible failure

D．planned to land the lunar module on the moon by himself

2. How did Armstrong respond when people doubted that he had been to the moon?

A．He was angry

B．He was troubled by it

C．He tried to find evidence that they were wrong

D．He believed they would be proved wrong some day.

3. By saying“I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work”, Armstrong meant that ________.

A．the more daily work you've done, the more easily you will be recognized

B．things that look spectacular are not as useful as ordinary successes

C．achieving greatness can make other successes feel less important

D．everyday's hard work is more appreciated than one successful moment

4. Which of the following best describes Armstrong?

A．He was ambitious	B．He tried to avoid the spotlight
C．He balanced his life and work well	D．He was talkative and loved telling jokes

8 . The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area talking about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’”

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

1. The book Gone with the Wind was ________.

A．written in “The Dump”	B．awarded ten Academy Awards
C．first published on a newspaper	D．adapted from a movie

2. According to the passage, Ms. Mitchell stopped working as a reporter because________.

A．she was rich enough	B．her husband didn’t like it
C．she was injured（受伤）then	D．she wanted to write books

3. What can be inferred from the passage about Margaret Mitchell?

A．Her height made her marriage unhappy.

B．Her interest in writing continued as an adult.

C．Writing stopped her working as a reporter.

D．Her life was full of hardship and sadness.

4. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.

B．Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.

C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.

D．Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.

9 . Tired of seeing so much garbage along the bank of River Schie in Rotterdam, Dutch artist Tommy Kleyn decided to step up and do something about it. He alone organized a cleanup of the entire bank without leaving any garbage, proving that anyone can indeed make a difference if they want to.

Kleyn would cycle past a part of the Rotterdam riverway and see so much garbage along the bank. The situation troubled him, so he decided to spend 30 minutes every day cleaning the place up, filling one garbage bag a time. And when he posted pictures of his work on Facebook, a few of his friends volunteered to join as well. In five weeks, they had a 100-meter riverbank clean and completely rubbish-free.

Kleyn's action has received great support online, and he has managed to turn it into a small movement. He has set up a Facebook page through which he challenges people to spend 30 minutes a year to fill a garbage bag with rubbish. "It feels great and you'll make a big difference," he wrote. "People are free to share their 'before' and 'after' pictures on the page. The challenge has attracted people in countries. The people came from as far as China to respond with their own photos and stories!"

"I want to show how easy it is to remove rubbish," he added. "Hopefully there will come a time when makers are thoughtful and their goods are no longer wrapped in layers of plastic."

Local officials praised Kleyn's work on the riverbank and helped him raise money for future projects as well. "People can sign up to help me one day a year. For this, they received a coupon, like going to a local restaurant at the lowest price. You can imagine what I've managed to do in 22 days, and what 22 men could do in a day." he said.

1. What happened after Kleyn posted pictures of his work on Facebook?

A．Some of his friends were forced to join him.

B．The whole riverbank was completely rubbish-free.

C．His pictures received little attention from foreigners.

D．His work on the bank of River Schie started to pay off.

2. What do we know about Kleyn's action?

A．It has influenced many people.	B．It is opposed by local officials.
C．It is difficult for Chinese to accept.	D．It has made people stop using layers of plastic.

3. Kleyn decided to make a difference by       ·

A．collecting rubbish bags	B．taking pictures of River Schie
C．cleaning up the banks of River Schie	D．sharing pictures on the Internet

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A．River pollution in Dutch has been solved by Tommy Kleyn.

B．A Dutch eco-hero proves that one man can make a difference.

C．Environmental protection needs support from the government.

D．Facebook plays an important role in environmental protection.

10 . Female journalists who changed the world

Helen Thomas

Helen was a White House reporter who had a front row seat of history as she interviewed ten American presidents across her career. She was praised for her cruel drive, with one White House press secretary describing her questioning as torture(拷问). Her refusal to hide her strong opinions, even when asking questions to a president, made her one of the best-known journalists in Washington and a rule in her field.

Marie Colvin

The passionate and award-winning American journalist Marie Colvin worked as a foreign reporter at The Sunday Times from 1985 until she died in February 2012, while covering the Siege of Homs(霍姆斯的围攻) in Syria. Marie crossed into Syria on the back of a motorcycle, ignoring the Syrian government’s attempt to prevent foreign journalists from entering the country.

Mary Garber

In 1946, sports journalism was a man's job where female sports writers weren't allowed to enter press boxes. Mary Garber changed that by paving the way for female sports writers. She first covered high school sports and then reported on college athletics. In June 2005, she became the first woman to receive the Associated Press Sports Editors' Red Smith Award, presented annually since 1981 for major contributions to sports journalism.

Ann Leslie

Few reporters have filed stories from more than 70 countries, but British journalist Ann Leslie is considered a unique force in journalism. Because the 73-year-old woman has witnessed and reported on some of the most significant events of the late 20th century. She was there when the Berlin Wall came down, and she lost her shoes in the crush waiting for Nelson Mandela's release.

1. What do we know about Helen from Paragraph 1?

A．She made friends with ten American presidents.

B．She liked to make her strong opinions known.

C．She often got into trouble due to her questions.

D．She was regarded as the best journalist in America.

2. From Paragraph 2 we can infer that Marie Colvin .

A．was a very brave woman

B．enjoyed riding a motorcycle

C．was awarded by the Syrian government

D．was killed by the Syrian government

3. Who opens the door for women sports reporters?

A．Helen Thomas.

B．Marie Colvin.

C．Mary Garber.

D．Ann Leslie.